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Bill Clinton: “Our current economic strength is the result not of chance, but of a choice the American people made 8 years ago.”

On the recordJanuary 11, 2001
Our current economic strength is the result not of chance, but of a choice the American people made 8 years ago.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Message to Congress Transmitting the Economic Report of the President

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