Bill Clinton: “When affirmative action is done right, it is flexible, it is fair, and…”

On the recordJuly 18, 1995

When affirmative action is done right, it is flexible, it is fair, and it works.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks on Affirmative Action at the National Archives and Records Administration

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