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Barack Obama: It will take longer than any of us would like – years, and not months.

On the recordDecember 18, 2008
It will take longer than any of us would like – years, and not months.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Chicago Announcing Nominations for the Departments of Labor

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