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Bill Clinton: I'm saying that their ingrained institutional resistance to change is not only hurting the American working people, it's…

On the recordJune 5, 1995
I'm saying that their ingrained institutional resistance to change is not only hurting the American working people, it's hurting the Japanese people. [The network took a commercial break.] Closing of Pennsylvania Avenue Mr. King. What you're looking at now is the front of the White House, which is becoming a mall or an esplanade. No cars anymore on Pennsylvania Avenue because of security threats. There are the barricades. You have to go in through the side; you can't go in through the front anymore. Tragedy?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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