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Bill Clinton: “It would be that we become more the one America that we know we ought to be.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2001
It would be that we become more the one America that we know we ought to be.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks at a Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration

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