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Barack Obama: We can make those changes, but we're going to have to be determined.

On the recordMarch 20, 2013
We can make those changes, but we're going to have to be determined.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's News Conference With President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah

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