Bill Clinton: “I will remember that the mayor wants to be buried by a Southern…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 1996

I will remember that the mayor wants to be buried by a Southern preacher so he can stay on Earth one more hour.

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Remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Service in Atlanta, Georgia

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