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On the recordJanuary 19, 1996
We the people. It is a very eloquent beginning, but when the document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'we the people.'
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at the Funeral Service for Barbara Jordan in Houston, Texas

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