Barack Obama: “You can't be trapped by the past.”

On the recordNovember 18, 2016

You can't be trapped by the past.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Town Hall Meeting in Lima

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