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Bill Clinton: New York City October 28, 1993 Hello. Thank you very much, Tom. Ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be with you, even by…

On the recordOctober 28, 1993
New York City October 28, 1993 Hello. Thank you very much, Tom. Ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be with you, even by telephone. I was here tonight on behalf of Mayor Dinkins, with Congressman Manton and Congressman Ackerman and Congressman Floyd Flake, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez. We think we did some good for Mayor Dinkins here tonight. And I know you will on election day. I was just reminiscing with Tom about the time when I came to your meeting last year in early 1992 when I took the subway from Manhattan and I came out to Queens to the meeting, and your organization got behind me early and stayed with me through the dark days and the bright ones. And I will never forget it. And I want you to know that I am still as grateful to you today as I was on the day we won the New York primary and the day we won the general election. I also want you to know that we're making progress on all the things that I talked about in Queens so long ago. We just got the report today that the Government's deficit is over $50 billion less this year than we thought it was going to be; that we've got some real growth back in the economy; and that more jobs have been created in the private sector in the first 9 months of this administration than in the previous 4 years of the last one. Now, we've still got a long way to go, and we've got a lot of work to do.…
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