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chief justice rehnquist, president carter, president bush, president
clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful
transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. with
a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

as i begin, i thank president clinton for his service to our nation.

and i thank vice president gore for a contest conducted with spirit and
ended with grace.

i am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of america's leaders
have come before me, and so many will follow.

we have a place, all of us, in a long story -- a story we continue, but
whose end we will not see. it is the story of a new world that became a
friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that
became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world
to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.

it is the american story -- a story of flawed and fallible people, united
across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.

the grandest of these ideals is an unfolding american promise that
everyone be
longs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was
ever
born.

americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws.
and t
hough our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must
follow n
o other course.

through much of the last century, america's faith in freedom and democracy
was
a rock in a raging sea. now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in
many nations.

our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the
inborn h
ope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and
pass along. and even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to
travel.


while many of our citizens p

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