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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1996
Contents:
Statement on Signing Legislation Conferring Honorary Citizenship on Mother Teresa,
October 1, 1996
Today I am delighted to sign a resolution conferring honorary United States citizenship on Mother Teresa.
In 1950, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity. Since then, she has brought hope and love into the lives of millions of orphaned and abandoned children the world over. She has nursed the sick, cared for the poor, and shown us, through concrete actions, how we can make real our dreams for a just and good society.
To be an American citizen is to share certain fundamental values: That we have a duty to help others live up to their God-given promise, that we have a responsibility to build up and reinforce the bonds of community, that we have an obligation to extend our hands to those who cannot always help themselves.
By this measure, Mother Teresa is already an American citizen. I am proud to make it official.
Note: H.J. Res. 191, approved October 1, was assigned Public Law No. 104-218.
Contents:
Chicago: William J. Clinton, "Statement on Signing Legislation Conferring Honorary Citizenship on Mother Teresa, October 1, 1996," Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1996 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, October 4, 1996 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), 32:2543 Original Sources, accessed March 23, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=54JCU257P55AN2D.
MLA: Clinton, William J. "Statement on Signing Legislation Conferring Honorary Citizenship on Mother Teresa, October 1, 1996." Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1996, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, October 4, 1996 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), 32:2543, Original Sources. 23 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=54JCU257P55AN2D.
Harvard: Clinton, WJ, 'Statement on Signing Legislation Conferring Honorary Citizenship on Mother Teresa, October 1, 1996' in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1996. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, October 4, 1996 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996), 32:2543. Original Sources, retrieved 23 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=54JCU257P55AN2D.
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