Barack Obama: “This is the nation that has led the world for two centuries in the…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2009

This is the nation that has led the world for two centuries in the pursuit of discovery.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge

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