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Bill Clinton: You can see the teleprompters there. You can see them. I am telling the Vice President, ``Al, they've got the wrong…

On the recordSeptember 23, 1993
You can see the teleprompters there. You can see them. I am telling the Vice President, ``Al, they've got the wrong speech on the teleprompter.'' He said, ``That's impossible.'' I said, ``You're not reading it. Read it.'' That's what I said. [Laughter] So it turned out that the people with our communications department had typed in the speech for the teleprompter on the disk that also had my State of the Union speech in February. And when the disk was called up, it started at the State of the Union instead of at the health care speech. And I thought to myself, that was a pretty good speech but not good enough to give twice. [Laughter] So that's what happened. Mr. Koppel. When I was looking at the First Lady there--you must have talked to her later on--it was almost as though she was telepathic. She looked worried. She knew there was something wrong.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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