June 12, 2007
Thank you all for coming. Please be seated. Dr. Edwards, thanks for your kind words. Congressman Lantos--no better friend to freedom, by the way; Congressman Rohrabacher, the same. Members of the Czech and Hungarian Parliaments; Ambassadors; distinguished guests; and more importantly, the survivors of Communist oppression, I'm honored to join you on this historic day.
And here in the company of men and women who resisted evil and helped bring down an empire, I ...