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Bill Clinton: He's like a lot of people down here. He's got a high IQ and not a lot of formal education but a world of horse sense. I…

On the recordJuly 23, 1993
He's like a lot of people down here. He's got a high IQ and not a lot of formal education but a world of horse sense. I mean, he's really a smart man. And when I was a child living down here and then after I moved to Hot Springs when I was 6, I used to get on a bus, a Trailways bus, and take the bus back down here--stop at every little town along the way, you know--and come down and spend a weekend with him. He and his wife, they would feed me. And Chelsea wasn't in that house 10 minutes till he had her in the back giving her peanut brittle.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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