Selected Remarks.

CLINTON, President William Jefferson [Bill] [Madeline Albright].

$4,800.00

Item Number: 145736

Collection of speeches and addresses from the 47th president of the United States, all first edition; from the library of Secretary Madeleine Albright. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth and wrappers. Secretary Madeline K. Albright’s bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. Association copies, inscribed by the President in ‘Selected Remarks 2017’ on the title page, “To Madeline with thanks Bill,” and in ‘Selected Remarks 2007’ on the front free endpaper, “To Madeline Thanks Bill Clinton 2007.” The recipient, Madeleine Albright worked with President Clinton for more than 30 years, during which time both gave countless speeches and public appearances. In one press conference, while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Albright condemned the acts of the Cuban pilots who shot down unarmed civilian planes over international waters: “This is not cojones, this is cowardice.” Recalling the reaction in a later interview, Albright stated: “President Clinton thought it was the best line ever and he sent me down to Miami in order to be part of the ceremony honoring the fallen pilots. And I’m walking into the Orange Bowl, through the tunnel that the [Miami] Dolphins come in, and 60,000 Cubans stood up and said, ‘Madame Cojones.'” In fine fine condition. An exceptional association.

William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1993 and served until the end of his second term in 2001. Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court, and left office with the joint-highest approval rating of any U.S. president.