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Barack Obama: That unbending belief that the power to make great a nation is found in its people and in their freedom, that was his…

On the recordNovember 19, 2013
That unbending belief that the power to make great a nation is found in its people and in their freedom, that was his philosophy.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Dinner in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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