Bill Clinton: “We have always been a people of hope—hope that we can make tomorrow…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1997

We have always been a people of hope—hope that we can make tomorrow brighter than today.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Proclamation 6968—National Day of Hope and Renewal, 1997

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