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Bill Clinton: “I think if you did it, people would bring back affirmative action. I mean, that would make the point. I couldn't help…”

On the recordAugust 4, 1997
I think if you did it, people would bring back affirmative action. I mean, that would make the point. I couldn't help thinking, when they explicitly excluded athletes, that you could have, let's say, an Hispanic young athlete who was a C student out of high school get in the best university in the State, and another young Hispanic who was an A-minus student in high school that wore Coke-bottle glasses and was an academic, who couldn't get in. I mean, the whole thing is bizarre. It's all mixed up. Mr. Smiley. You think it ought to include athletes?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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