“A struggle for the soul of the 21st century”

Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:43:00 +0000

Thank you very much. Thank you, Brian, for your remarks. Thank you, President DeGioia, for what you said and your leadership at Georgetown. It is kind of hard for me to get used to a president younger than I am. Thank you, Dean Gallucci, for helping me to come here and for the great work you did in our administration when I was president. And I would also like to thank the large number of people here who are my classmates, friends, who served as ambassadors and in other positions in my administration. All of them are sitting there thinking that it seemed like yesterday when all of us looked like all of you. So I think I can say for all of them, we are very grateful for what Georgetown did for us. We loved it when we were here and we love it still and we are honored to be part of a family that has given me this opportunity. I would also like to say a special word of thanks to one of my professors, Fr. Otto Hentz, who is here. He never abandoned me for all these years, even though he did not succeed in convincing me to become a Jesuit.

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“A struggle for the soul of the 21st century”