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Bill Clinton: It is a wonderful thing if I am but one day and one night in the world, provided that my fame and deeds live after me.

On the recordOctober 28, 1993
It is a wonderful thing if I am but one day and one night in the world, provided that my fame and deeds live after me.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Museum in Boston, Massachusetts

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