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Barack Obama: I'll make sure that we have a military that is second to none.

On the recordDecember 4, 2014
I'll make sure that we have a military that is second to none.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on the Nomination of Ashton B. Carter To Be Secretary of Defense

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