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Bill Clinton: “We have turned the record deficits into record surpluses.”

On the recordJanuary 11, 2001
We have turned the record deficits into record surpluses.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on the 2001 Economic Report and an Exchange With Reporters

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