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Bill Clinton: “I wanted our Nation to go into the next century with the American dream genuinely alive for every American without…”

On the recordJuly 2, 1996
I wanted our Nation to go into the next century with the American dream genuinely alive for every American without regard to race or gender or religion or region or the station that he or she starts out in life.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the National Education Association

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