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What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day?
總統就職那天的凌晨4點美國總統到底怎么了？
What happened to William Jefferson Clinton? We might not ever know.
威廉·杰斐遜·克林頓到底怎么了？我們也許無從知道。
And I noticed, he's not exactly around here today to face any tough questions.
而且我注意到，他今天人沒來面對這難以回答的問題。
It could get awkward, right?
這不是很奇怪嗎？
I mean after all, this whole business happened on his watch.
我是說，畢竟，基本所有事兒都歸他宏觀掌控。
But if he were here -- he might remind us, as he does in the wrap-up to his fine autobiography,
但是如果他在這兒，他可能會提醒我們說，就像他在自傳中所寫的
that on this day Bill Clinton began a journey --
從那天起，比爾·克林頓開始了一個新的旅程--
a journey that saw him go on to become the first Democrat president elected to two consecutive terms in decades. In generations.
這個旅程使他成為幾十年來第一個民主黨候選人中連任兩屆總統的人。也是幾代人來的第一個。
The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
從富蘭克林德拉諾，羅斯福以來第一次。
who began his own unprecedented journey way back at his own first election,
而羅斯福自己史無前例的旅程，從他第一次參選開始，
way back in a simpler time, way back in 1932 --
可以追溯到一個簡單的時間：1932年--
the year Alberto Giacometti made "The Palace at Four in the Morning."
那年，阿爾貝托·賈科梅蒂創造了“凌晨4點的宮殿”。
The year, let's remember, that this voice, now departed, first came a-cryin' into this big old crazy world of ours.
那年，讓我們記住，這個聲音如今已經擴散開來，初次降臨到我們這個瘋狂的大千世界。
