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Bill Clinton: That's right. Mr. Jackson. And it seems that they have missed growth. In baseball, for example, we thought we had a…

On the recordJuly 9, 1999
That's right. Mr. Jackson. And it seems that they have missed growth. In baseball, for example, we thought we had a great major leagues before we let Jackie Robinson and Campanella and Hank Aaron and Willie Mays in. But once they opened up the market, they now will go to Cuba; they'll go to the Dominican Republic and find Sammy Sosa; they'll go to Japan. The basketball team, now we'll go to Yugoslavia, go to Croatia--that the baseball owners seem to have gotten it; the basketball owners seem to have gotten it; now the rest of corporate America must get that inclusion leads to economic growth.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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