[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 137 (Tuesday, October 25, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S11818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        IN MEMORY OF PENN KEMBLE

  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President. On October 16, our Nation lost one of 
its finest defenders of freedom, Richard Penn Kemble.
  The central theme of Penn Kemble's activist youth and professional 
life was the promotion and strengthening of democracy. In the 1970s, he 
served on the Senate staff of my predecessor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 
and in the Clinton administration, he served as Deputy and Acting 
Director of the United States Information Agency, USIA. At USIA, Penn 
Kemble initiated Civitas, a multinational educational program. Under 
his leadership, USIA made educational reform, to strengthen both 
citizenship and the culture of democracy, one of its central interests. 
Through its partnership with the Center for Civic Education, it 
nurtured a worldwide civic education movement that began at its first 
meeting in Prague in June of 1995. I had the honor of addressing the 
third annual Civitas World Conference in 1999 in Palermo, Italy, which 
brought together political leaders and more than 350 civic educators 
from around the world.
  This international civic education movement continues today in no 
small measure because of the important work Penn Kemble began in 1995. 
He knew that even though the institutional machinery of democracy might 
be in place, it could not be sustained unless a culture of democracy 
was to take root. He knew that people could only become citizens when 
they understood and exercised the rights and responsibilities of self-
government. He knew that it was in our Nation's best interest to 
support emerging democracies through citizen education and he used his 
intellect, boundless energy, and creativity to achieve that end.
  I am grateful for the work Penn Kemble began during my husband's 
Presidency, and I join his family and friends from all over the world 
in mourning his loss.

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