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Bill Clinton: “When I became President, people had pretty much given up on the Government doing anything right.”

On the recordFebruary 5, 1994
When I became President, people had pretty much given up on the Government doing anything right.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at the Texas Presidential Dinner and Gala in Houston

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