Monday, May 31, 2004
Mr. President
I went to Clinton's speech. It was really good. Definitely worth all the trouble I went through that day... First of all we had to wake up at 4:50 in the morning which I hadn't done in a REALLY long time. We went to a coffee shop near by to have breakfast and at 6:30 we were there at where the speech had to take place at 9:00.
The weather was brutally cold and you can imagine how we felt after standing there for 3 hours. We had a really good time though.
Clinton said some really good stuff. The webcast of the ceremony can be found here.
One thing I remember is that he said that he believes that the government should cooperate with other nations and act alone wherever it is forced to do so and that is while OTHERS believe that they should act alone unless they are forced to cooperate. Well, you can guess that in highly democratic Ithaca how people were excited by this sentence.
He also said that had we lived in a world that none could fight or occupy or... Then all the money that goes into defending the country, should go to education in other countries so that we create more friends rather than terrorists.
I really liked him. He is sort of a charismatic person.
President Lehman (President of Cornell) has really done a spectacular job by bringing president Clinton here. It is his first year here as the president and we have already seen some truly remarkable signs of having him here. He is the first Cornellian ever to lead this university. He was the dean of law school in Michigan. He has some great connections apparently.
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The weather was brutally cold and you can imagine how we felt after standing there for 3 hours. We had a really good time though.
Clinton said some really good stuff. The webcast of the ceremony can be found here.
One thing I remember is that he said that he believes that the government should cooperate with other nations and act alone wherever it is forced to do so and that is while OTHERS believe that they should act alone unless they are forced to cooperate. Well, you can guess that in highly democratic Ithaca how people were excited by this sentence.
He also said that had we lived in a world that none could fight or occupy or... Then all the money that goes into defending the country, should go to education in other countries so that we create more friends rather than terrorists.
I really liked him. He is sort of a charismatic person.
President Lehman (President of Cornell) has really done a spectacular job by bringing president Clinton here. It is his first year here as the president and we have already seen some truly remarkable signs of having him here. He is the first Cornellian ever to lead this university. He was the dean of law school in Michigan. He has some great connections apparently.
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