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Bill Clinton: “I want to go when the Secretary of Defense and General Shalikashvili tell me it's an appropriate thing to do.”

On the recordDecember 21, 1995
I want to go when the Secretary of Defense and General Shalikashvili tell me it's an appropriate thing to do.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Exchange With Reporters on Bosnia in Arlington, Virginia

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