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Bill Clinton: “Families are responsible for raising children, and parents are their first and most important teachers.”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1995
Families are responsible for raising children, and parents are their first and most important teachers.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Proclamation 6819—America Goes Back to School, 1995

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