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Bill Clinton: “You have given us the tools to do it, with this surplus.”

On the recordJanuary 5, 1999
You have given us the tools to do it, with this surplus.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on the Budget Surplus for Fiscal Year 1999

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