Boys Nation Alumnus Greets 1998 Group
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WASHINGTON — Exactly 35 years after he met his hero, President Kennedy, in the Rose Garden as a Boys Nation delegate, President Clinton greeted the 1998 group of student leaders Friday and urged them to help “change the world.”
“I believe you will live in a time of the greatest possibility in all of human history,” Clinton said on a warm and humid morning much like July 24, 1963, when he, as a Boys Nation leader from Hot Springs, Ark., met Kennedy and had his picture taken shaking the president’s hand.
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