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Barack Obama: “Empowering women across the globe is not simply the right thing to do, it is also smart foreign policy.”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2011
Empowering women across the globe is not simply the right thing to do, it is also smart foreign policy.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 8630—Women's History Month

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