Bill Clinton: “We are all Jefferson's heirs, and we are doomed sometimes to succeed…”

On the recordApril 29, 1997

We are all Jefferson's heirs, and we are doomed sometimes to succeed and sometimes to fail.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks Commemorating the Centennial of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress

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