Bill Clinton: “We can pay this debt off entirely by 2012, for the first time since…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2000

We can pay this debt off entirely by 2012, for the first time since Andrew Jackson was President in 1835.

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Remarks on the National Economy and an Exchange With Reporters

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