Remarks and a question-and-answer session at Tsinghua University in Beijing.(Transcript)

From: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents | Date: February 25, 2002 | Copyright information

February 22, 2002

The President. Vice President Flu, thank you very much for your kind and generous remarks. Thank you for welcoming me and my wife, Laura, here. I see she's keeping pretty good company, with the Secretary of State, Colin Powell. It's good to see you, Mr. Secretary. And I see my National Security Adviser, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, who at one time was the provost at Stanford University. So she's comfortable on university campuses such as this. Thank you for be...

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