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Barack Obama: “We won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2016
We won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Memorial Service for Former President Shimon Peres of Israel in Jerusalem

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