Bill Clinton: “I ran for President because I was tired of 20 years of declining…”

On the recordOctober 3, 1993

I ran for President because I was tired of 20 years of declining living standards.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the AFL-CIO Convention in San Francisco, California

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