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2000 Public Papers 2037 - Remarks to the Conference on the Progressive Tradition in Princeton, New Jersey

Publication Title: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: WILLIAM J. CLINTON (2000, Book II)

Notes: The President spoke at 3:23 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University. In his remarks, he referred to Harold Shapiro, president, Princeton University; Michael Rothschild, dean, and Ruth Miller, assistant dean, Woodrow Wilson School; Sean Wilentz, director, Program in American Studies, and Katharine Strong Gilbert, president, American Whig-Cliosophic Society, who presented the President with the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service; and historian Arthur Schlesinger. The conference was entitled ``The Progressive Tradition: Politics, Culture, and History.''