LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go now to Washington, to the White House specifically, the East Room; President Clinton here about to make another designation of land that will be termed off limits for any development. He is doing what he calls is preserving our natural heritage.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. And good morning. I want to welcome you all here, but especially I would like to acknowledge the Secretary Mineta, Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana, all the descendants of Lewis and Clark, representatives of Sacagawea and Bjork (ph), Stephen Ambrose, whom you will hear in a moment, and I also want to recognize my friends Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, who did such a wonderful job on the Lewis and Clark film, the members of the Millennium Council who have supported this project, the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and Trials groups. I thank you all for coming here. I would like to especially acknowledge and thank our administration's environmental team, including Secretary Babbitt, EPA Administrator Carol Browner, who is here, my chief of staff John Podesta, George Frampton, the head of the Council for Environmental Quality, and Bob Stanton, who has led our Park Service so ably. Thank you all for your good work.</s>HARRIS: We now want to cut away from the president's remarks there in the East Room of the White House.
President Clinton Declares New National Monuments