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Bill Clinton: “You want to do something for your country? Make your empowerment zone work.”

On the recordJuly 25, 1995
You want to do something for your country? Make your empowerment zone work.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the White House Community Empowerment Conference

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