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Bill Clinton: “I would tell them that they were over there fighting ultimately for a peace to take place.”

On the recordDecember 5, 1993
I would tell them that they were over there fighting ultimately for a peace to take place.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of Spain

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