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Bill Clinton: “I think that as President I have to do two things. One is to speak about it and to focus the attention of the Nation on…”

On the recordNovember 7, 1993
I think that as President I have to do two things. One is to speak about it and to focus the attention of the Nation on it. I went to the University of North Carolina recently and spoke to the 200th anniversary there of the university and gave a major speech trying to deal with the combined impact of the breakdown of the family and the rise in violence and the rise in drugs and the lack of economic opportunity and---- Mr. Russert. Is there a correlation between crime and drugs and breakdown of the family?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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