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Barack Obama: “You have some people that just totally wrap their arms around you and shake your hand.”

On the recordDecember 1, 2014
You have some people that just totally wrap their arms around you and shake your hand.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda

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