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Bill Clinton: It would be fair for you to conclude that we have decided we should try to save Dayton, and to save Dayton, all the…

On the recordJuly 11, 1997
It would be fair for you to conclude that we have decided we should try to save Dayton, and to save Dayton, all the elements had to be implemented. And that it's too easy for everybody involved to lean on SFOR as a crutch. But it also would be wrong to conclude that there was a decision to basically totally reform the mission. This was clearly within the mission.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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