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I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.

I was a little tall for it.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.