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On the recordJanuary 16, 1997
We all have an obligation to reach out to one another—across the artificial barriers of race, gender, religion, class, and age—so that each member of our society shares fully in the promise of the American Dream.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Proclamation 6967—Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 1997

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