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Barack Obama: “That starts with providing the guidance our children need.”

On the recordJuly 13, 2008
That starts with providing the guidance our children need.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the 99th Annual Convention of the NAACP in Cincinnati

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