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Barack Obama: We need more fathers to step up and do the hard work of parenting.

On the recordJune 18, 2015
We need more fathers to step up and do the hard work of parenting.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 9296—Father's Day

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