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Bill Clinton: “We don't want to weaken our economy by balancing the budget.”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1995
We don't want to weaken our economy by balancing the budget.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the Community at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Selma

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