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Bill Clinton: Should we walk away from the idea that the best thing we can do is to give each other a hand up, not a handout?

On the recordApril 11, 1995
Should we walk away from the idea that the best thing we can do is to give each other a hand up, not a handout?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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

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