Barack Obama: “Ensuring that our young people can go as far as their dreams and hard…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2016

Ensuring that our young people can go as far as their dreams and hard work will take them is the single most important task that we have as a nation.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the 'My Brother's Keeper' National Summit

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