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Barack Obama: If Roger can make it, and if I can make it, if Kiara can make it, every kid in this country can make it.

On the recordJanuary 8, 2014
If Roger can make it, and if I can make it, if Kiara can make it, every kid in this country can make it.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the Promise Zones Initiative

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