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Barack Obama: The system we created to safeguard this fundamental ideal must do exactly that.

On the recordSeptember 29, 2015
The system we created to safeguard this fundamental ideal must do exactly that.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 9339—National Youth Justice Awareness Month

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