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Bill Clinton: Now is the time to say we can bring opportunity to poor people, and the Government doesn't have to do it all.

On the recordOctober 21, 1999
Now is the time to say we can bring opportunity to poor people, and the Government doesn't have to do it all.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Kennedy/King Dinner in Alexandria, Virginia

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