Clinton's comments on the FDR Memorial

President Clinton spoke at the opening of the FDR Memorial in 1997. His comments, preserved online, frame some of the things that we will see there.

With that faith he inspired millions of ordinary Americans to take responsibility for one another -- doing their part, in his words, through the National Recovery Administration, reclaiming nature through the Civilian Conservation Corps, gathering scrap, giving up nylons, and eventually storming the beaches at Normandy and Okinawa and Anzio.