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Bill Clinton: By saving most of the surplus for Medicare and Social Security, we can also pay off all our publicly held debt by the…

On the recordJuly 16, 1999
By saving most of the surplus for Medicare and Social Security, we can also pay off all our publicly held debt by the year 2015.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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