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Bill Clinton: “You are going to live in the most exciting period of time in human history.”

On the recordJanuary 21, 1997
You are going to live in the most exciting period of time in human history.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Stanley Field Middle School in Northbrook, Illinois

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