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Bill Clinton: Our job is to negotiate firmly in the interests of the United States, and we're doing that.

On the recordJuly 8, 1993
Our job is to negotiate firmly in the interests of the United States, and we're doing that.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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