[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 41 (Monday, October 13, 1997)]
[Pages 1503-1504]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Signing Legislation Designating the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Washington Field Office Memorial Building

October 6, 1997

    Today I am pleased to have signed into law H.R. 2443, a bill that 
would designate

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the new Washington, D.C., field office of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation as the ``Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field 
Office Memorial Building.'' The new building is so named in honor of the 
five FBI agents who have been killed in the line of duty while assigned 
to the FBI's Washington field office: William H. Christian, Jr., Martha 
Dixon Martinez, Michael J. Miller, Anthony Palmisano, and Edwin R. 
Woodriffe.
    Naming the FBI's new field office in honor of these brave and 
courageous FBI employees is a reminder to us all of the difficult and 
dangerous job that FBI agents do--day in and day out.
    In establishing this permanent memorial, we do well to remember--and 
be grateful for--the lives of all Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement personnel who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the 
performance of their duties.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
October 6, 1997.

Note: H.R. 2443, approved October 6, was assigned Public Law No. 105-52.