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Bill Clinton: “We could help 5 million people a year, and we ought to do it.”

On the recordOctober 6, 1996
We could help 5 million people a year, and we ought to do it.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks in Portland, Maine

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