Bill Clinton: “I might have been the happiest non-South Carolinian in the entire…”

On the recordMarch 28, 2000

I might have been the happiest non-South Carolinian in the entire United States of America when Jim Hodges was elected Governor in 1998.

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Remarks at a Reception for Representative James E. Clyburn in Columbia

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