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Barack Obama: “So if you think your job is pressure-packed—hers meant that forgetting to carry the one might send somebody floating off…”

On the recordNovember 23, 2015
So if you think your job is pressure-packed—hers meant that forgetting to carry the one might send somebody floating off into the solar system.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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