Bill Clinton: “Victory has a thousand fathers; only defeat is an orphan.”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2000

Victory has a thousand fathers; only defeat is an orphan.

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Remarks to the Granoff Forum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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