Clinton apologizes

[Doug Henwood]

[It looks like he was referring to this, delivered about 10 AM: "I 
spent an enormous amount of time trying to help the people in the 
land of my forbears in Northern Ireland get over 600 years of 
religious fights. And every time they make an agreement to do it, 
they're like a couple of drunks walking out of the bar for the last 
time -- when they get to the swinging door they turn around and go 
back in and say, I just can't quite there."]

                               The White House

                        Office of the Press Secretary

                          (Mont Tremblant, Quebec)
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For Immediate Release                                    October 8, 1999

                         STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

Earlier today, in a discussion of the Irish peace process, I used a
metaphor that was inappropriate. I want to express my regret for any
offense my remark caused.

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