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Bill Clinton: If we're going to make Presidents a subject for the first time in history--this has never been done to anybody…

On the recordNovember 6, 1994
If we're going to make Presidents a subject for the first time in history--this has never been done to anybody before--to things like special counsels looking into things that happened long before the President became President, that were fully aired in the Presidential campaign--I don't think Presidents should make money being President, but I don't think they should be bankrupt when they leave because of legal fees. Nor do I think that Presidents should expect lawyers to work for nothing. So, once again, we're in a situation here where--do you really want to say that unless you're fabulously wealthy you shouldn't be able to be President? You shouldn't be able to run for an office because you can't buy enough negative television ads to trash your opponent? I think what we did was appropriate, legal, proper, and restrained. Former President Ronald Reagan Mr. King. A couple of other things. Ronald Reagan's announcement, and I know you commented that you'd----
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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