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Barack Obama: The human imagination is still the most powerful tool that we have as a people.

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
The human imagination is still the most powerful tool that we have as a people.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Presenting the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal

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