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Barack Obama: “He feels that he was hired to try to do some hard things, and he's going to try to do them.”

On the recordMay 9, 2011
He feels that he was hired to try to do some hard things, and he's going to try to do them.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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