Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 5, 1 May 2013 — A NOBLE CALLING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A NOBLE CALLING

Giving the keynote address at the YMCA Youth in Government at the state Capitol in March, OHA Trustee Peter Apo told future Hawai'i leaders that making puhlie policy is "one of the highest callings and the most honomhle professions that a person in this country or anywhere in the world ean engage in." Apo, who served in the state House of Representatives from 1 982 to 1 994, said the greatest puhlie policy challenge facing the state of Hawai'i is reconciling the wrong done to Hawaiians with the overthrow of the kingdom in 1 893. Apo said President Grover Cleveland issued a puhlie policy statement at the time by calling it "a substantial wrong" that "we should endeavor to repair." A century later, President Bill Clinton signed the Apology Resolution expressing support for reconciliation at the federal level. - Courtesy: K/HC4

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