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Barack Obama: “Engagement means using all the levers of our national power and rallying the world to take on our shared challenges.”

On the recordMay 14, 2016
Engagement means using all the levers of our national power and rallying the world to take on our shared challenges.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Commencement Address at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in Piscataway

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