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Bill Clinton: “It really does take a village to have the kind of childrearing we want for all of our children.”

On the recordOctober 7, 1997
It really does take a village to have the kind of childrearing we want for all of our children.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey

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