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The NAFTA agreement signing ceremony was held at the Commerce Department with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. They provided comments on the historic trade deal.

General Colin Powell was awarded the 1993 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award. He was recently retired from his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Ronald Reagan library was first…

President Bill Clinton and Defense Secretary Les Aspin spoke at a full military ceremony celebrating the long, distinguished career of retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General …

General Powell spoke about post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy objectives. He discussed his service during Vietnam, in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. General Powell was a natio…

DOD Secretary Les Aspin and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Colin Powell briefed the media on the results of a five-month review of U.S. defense needs. The “Bottom-Up Review” assesses U.S. def…

President Clinton spoke in a Rose Garden ceremony to announce his selection of U.S. Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General John Shalikashvili to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General …

After receiving a award for defense of his country, General Colin Powell spoke to an audience at the convention of the International Platform Association on the changing face of the U.S. arm…

General Colin Powell spoke during a ceremony marking the groundbreaking for a memorial commemorating the women military personnel who fought in the Vietnam War. General Powell emphasized the…

The committee heard testimony from Department of Defense officials on the administration’s new policy concerning homosexuals in the U.S. military. The previous day, President Clinton announc…

President Clinton announced a lifting of the ban against homosexuals in the military that would allow homosexuals to serve in the military if they remain celibate while serving. He was acc…

Defense Secretary Les Aspin and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke in a news conference following a speech by President Bill Clinton on the new policy on homosexuals in the U.S. mili…

Secretary Les Aspin and General Colin Powell spoke in a news briefing in the Pentagon on the U.S. military air strike against targets in Iraq earlier in the day. The two men spoke shortly af…

The commission heard testimony from Defense Secretary Les Aspin, General Colin Powell and other members of the Joint Chiefs on the list of military bases slated for closure by the Department…

General Colin Powell spoke to the attendees of a black tie dinner at the Washington Hilton after receiving the Eisenhower Leadership Prize for his work in issues involving human values. In h…

General Colin Powell delivered the commencement address to the 1993 graduating class of Harvard University and their guests. In his remarks, General Powell reflected on the end of the Cold W…

President Bill Clinton spoke during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Following the remarks of several veterans and relatives of soldiers killed in …

Administration officials and Department of Defense Administrators spoke in a ceremony commemorating the completion of the construction of the Pentagon fifty years earlier in 1943. The ceremo…

U.S. Army General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin answered questions concerning allowing gays to serve in the military. They discusse…

The committee heard testimony from Secretary Aspin and General Powell on the Department of Defense strategy for the future of the U.S. military and the fiscal year 1994 Department of Defense…

The House Armed Services Committee took up the 1994 Defense Budget.