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Bill Clinton: “We talked to him for a long time on the telephone. The only reason we didn't is because I didn't want to ask him to come…”

On the recordJune 22, 1994
We talked to him for a long time on the telephone. The only reason we didn't is because I didn't want to ask him to come all the way up to Camp David, and we had planned to go up there for the weekend. And he decided and I decided there was--we know each other very well; we've known each other for 20 years--we decided we didn't need to do it; we could just have a long talk on the phone, and that's what we did.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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