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- # President Clinton's Video Remarks
## Overview
This entity is a text segment extracted from a legal document titled *Vieques Remarks*, containing a portion of President William Jefferson Clinton’s video address delivered on January 31, 2000. The segment spans lines 338 to 341 of the source file and was extracted on January 28, 2026, from a plain text version of a digitized document. It forms part of a structured collection of materials related to U.S. policy on Navy training operations on Vieques, Puerto Rico.
## Context
The segment is part of [Vieques Remarks](arke:01KG2TSWADQKM6FJC6H5J03W80), a formal legal document that compiles President Clinton’s video remarks addressing the controversy over U.S. Navy training activities on the island of Vieques. These remarks were prompted by a fatal accident in April 1999 at the Navy’s Vieques range, which killed civilian security guard David Sanes and injured others. The document was assembled from scanned images of original pages and converted to text through OCR and post-processing workflows. It resides within the [Test Collection](arke:01KG2T49K0H5GDRB0G4YDTPG8H), a repository used for processing and analyzing archival materials.
## Contents
This segment captures the opening statement of President Clinton’s address, in which he acknowledges the tragic accident and expresses condolences to the family of David Sanes. He frames the incident as a pivotal moment that intensified long-standing opposition to Navy training exercises on Vieques, referencing the phrase “the straw that broke the camel’s back” in relation to the controversial practice. The text immediately follows closing remarks and precedes a section titled [Impact of the Accident](arke:01KG2TTKC1XPN4ZQFEG4W32ZYV), which elaborates on the broader social, health, and environmental concerns raised by the local community. Despite a strikethrough in the text, the sentiment underscores the administration’s recognition of public outrage and the need for policy change.
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- My fellow citizens: last April, there was a tragic accident at the Navy range on Vieques. I mourned the loss to the family of David Sanes (SAN-ness), and the suffering of the others injured that day.
~~The accident was the straw that broke the camel's back regarding the tagged practice.~~
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- President Clinton's Video Remarks