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Barack Obama: For just as your first Prime Minister said the day that the father of your nation was taken from you, we shall never…

On the recordNovember 5, 2010
For just as your first Prime Minister said the day that the father of your nation was taken from you, we shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the Second Anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai

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