Bill Clinton: “Think what it was like for those nine kids to show up and face a…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1997

Think what it was like for those nine kids to show up and face a jeering mob, armed only with their notebooks and their schoolbooks.

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Remarks at a Reception for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in Little Rock

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