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Barack Obama: “Raising a healthy next generation is both a moral obligation and a national imperative.”

On the recordMarch 30, 2014
Raising a healthy next generation is both a moral obligation and a national imperative.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 9094—National Child Abuse Prevention Month

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