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Bill Clinton: “That's not a--how am I coping? [Laughter] It's not a problem. If you haven't done anything wrong and a problem comes up…”

On the recordDecember 20, 1996
That's not a--how am I coping? [Laughter] It's not a problem. If you haven't done anything wrong and a problem comes up, you fix it and you go on. I cope by thinking about the 11 million jobs we created and the millions more we have to create. I think about the millions of people that have a better deal going to college and the millions of more that will have. I cope by thinking about what the American people hired me to do and the questions they ask me when I see them. Yes, Gwen [Gwen Ifill, NBC News]. Second Term Transition and Diversity
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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