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Bill Clinton: They're the best. It's a little early yet. They'll be big in about a month. Four weeks from now we're going to have the…

On the recordJuly 23, 1993
They're the best. It's a little early yet. They'll be big in about a month. Four weeks from now we're going to have the watermelon festival here. And I used to come down here every year and run in the 5K run and enter the cow chip throwing contest, which I won one year, I'm embarrassed to say. The year I won it they said I shouldn't be rewarded because I have an unfair advantage, since politicians do it for a living. [Laughter] That's what they said. But anyway, they're pretty good yet, but it's a little early in the season, and we need a little more rain.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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