WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The future before us expands as wide as the ocean that joins, not divides, the United States and Africa.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Africa, generally, has been a neglected continent, as far as the U.S. is concerned. And President Clinton deliberately wanted to change that.</s>CLINTON: We're going to unilaterally make an effort to give more access to all African countries, but we'll do even better for the countries that are trying harder on democracy, human rights, and economic reform.</s>BLITZER: Here was an area where so many of the slaves who eventually came to North America had been shipped from. The whole African experience, the connection between Africa and the United States, the slavery, it was a necessary reminder to Americans that there is a historic connection to Africa that we all should be much more sensitive. I interviewed President Nelson Mandela at the presidential mansion in Capetown in South Africa. Having been there during Apartheid, and now being there after Apartheid, it was just such a thrilling moment for me as a reporter. It was just a thrilling trip, the whole trip from Ghana to Uganda to South Africa to Senegal, to Botswana. I loved that trip.
CNN 20: President Clinton in Africa, March 1998