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Bill Clinton: Let me ask you a question. One of the things that tickled me about--since I grew up in the South, in addition to being…

On the recordDecember 19, 1997
Let me ask you a question. One of the things that tickled me about--since I grew up in the South, in addition to being-- [inaudible]--or the race problems in the country, we were all so obsessed with athletics. One of the things that tickled me about the California affirmative action vote was that there was--preference vote-- is that there was an exception made for athletes. So you can give a preference for athletes to get into Berkeley, so Berkeley can have a nice football team and a nice basketball team. The Vice President. Alumni giving.
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