Bill Clinton: “If I could make Keillor laugh, I knew that I had achieved.”

On the recordOctober 6, 1999

If I could make Keillor laugh, I knew that I had achieved.

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Oct 6, 1999

Clinton's remark about humorist Garrison Keillor during a White House event.

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