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Bill Clinton: “Yes. Mr. Jackson. They seem to have found a common accord on this idea of new markets. The War on Poverty seemed…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1999
Yes. Mr. Jackson. They seem to have found a common accord on this idea of new markets. The War on Poverty seemed to--would have been divisive: poverty, reaction; affirmative action, division, reaction. But new markets seem to have bound Appalachia and Delta, black, white, red. What's kind of magic about this notion of new markets initiative?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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