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Barack Obama: One of my biggest priorities when I came in was, how do we reform the system overall?

On the recordNovember 16, 2011
One of my biggest priorities when I came in was, how do we reform the system overall?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at Campbell High School in Canberra

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