care but still didn’t have the universal coverage that citizens in every other prosperous nation took for granted. ” The veil had been ripped from my weaknesses and vices, both real and imagined. Laura impressed me with her knowledge of technology, manufacturing, and trade, the microeconomic issues I felt had been too long ignored in the making of national economic policy. Let it be our cause to see that that child has a chance to live to the fullest of her God-given capacities.
That week I named the deputy secretary of defense, Bill Perry, to succeed Les Aspin, who had resigned as secretary not long after the day of Black Hawk Down. Espy would head our delegation to President Mandela’s inauguration; held a White House event to highlight the special problem I had started playing again only two weeks earlier and was still wearing a soft leg brace for protection. So in this pulpit, on this day, let me ask all of you in your heart to say: We will honor the life and the work of Martin Luther King.
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