Bill Clinton: “We are being given an historic responsibility now, you and I, to pick…”

On the recordJuly 2, 1996

We are being given an historic responsibility now, you and I, to pick which bridge we're going to walk into the 21st century.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the National Education Association

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