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Bill Clinton: “It is not an accident that the unemployment rate is down, that the deficit has been reduced by 60 percent.”

On the recordSeptember 18, 1996
It is not an accident that the unemployment rate is down, that the deficit has been reduced by 60 percent.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks in Longview, Washington

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