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Bill Clinton: I never will forget the story he told me during the Depression when he came home—the only time in his life when he was…

On the recordApril 11, 1995
I never will forget the story he told me during the Depression when he came home—the only time in his life when he was unable to buy my mother a new dress for Easter, and he wept because he did not have $2.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Franklin D. Roosevelt 50th Anniversary Commemoration in Warm Springs, Georgia

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