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Bill Clinton: If on Inauguration Day in 1993, someone had told you that within 5 1/2 years America would have 16 million new jobs and…

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
If on Inauguration Day in 1993, someone had told you that within 5 1/2 years America would have 16 million new jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in 28 years, would you have said, 'I will accept that and be glad for the next 5 years for what's going on in America'?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Arkansas State Democratic Committee in Little Rock, Arkansas

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