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Bill Clinton: “Well, it's a genuine tragedy. In some ways it's a story as old as time; in some ways it's a modern story. It's of course…”

On the recordJune 20, 1994
Well, it's a genuine tragedy. In some ways it's a story as old as time; in some ways it's a modern story. It's of course the biggest tragedy because two people were killed. Children were robbed of a mother, a family's lost loved ones, and a man widely admired in this country is now caught in the web of a terrible tragedy. But I have to say that, after we all watched it in excruciating detail last weekend, the time has now come for the legal process to take its course. I think the less the rest of us say from now on in until the legal process takes its course, the better.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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