US Presidency
1995

Over 200 years ago, our Founders changed the entire course of human history by joining together to create a new country based on a single powerful idea: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal,... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It has fallen to every generation since then to preserve that idea, the American idea, and to deepen and expand its meaning in new and different times: to Lincoln and to his Congress to preserve the Union and to end slavery; to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to restrain the abuses and excesses of the industrial revolution and to assert our leadership in the world; to Franklin Roosevelt to fight the failure and pain of the Great Depression and to win our country's great struggle against fascism; and to all our Presidents since to fight the Cold War.