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Bill Clinton: “Don't you think at least we ought to look at the bank balance for a week or two before we start spending it again?”

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
Don't you think at least we ought to look at the bank balance for a week or two before we start spending it again?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Dinner in Little Rock

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