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Bill Clinton: “We had better start thinking about how we are going to make sure that America is a place of ideas and ideals, not a…”

On the recordJune 29, 1997
We had better start thinking about how we are going to make sure that America is a place of ideas and ideals, not a place where there is a dominant race.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at the New England Presidential Luncheon in Boston, Massachusetts

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