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"And I know you may not believe anything that I'm telling you today, and you don't have to. It is my responsibility to earn your trust."
- Katehi noted a sign in the crowd, referring to Nov. 17, 1973, the day a tank rammed through the main gate at Athens Polytechnic, where a student uprising had begun three days earlier against the military junta that ruled Greece at the time. The incident ended in bloodshed.
- "And I was there," said Katehi, her voice cracking with emotion, as she recalled the incident from her undergraduate years at Athens Polytechnic. "And I don't want to forget that."
