Bill Clinton: “The great thing about the United States is that all the history of our…”

On the recordMay 16, 1994

The great thing about the United States is that all the history of our country lives in the present.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Question-and-Answer Session on the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision in Beltsville, Maryland

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