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On the recordMay 4, 1993
It was immensely gratifying after it, to see the way people sort of dumped on our State back in the forties and fifties and said we were all a bunch of back-country hayseeds, and we had a guy in the Senate who doubled the IQ of any room he entered.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at the Tribute to Senator J. William Fulbright

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