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Barack Obama: We could shrink our deficits and still invest in our families, our health, our schools, science, technology.

On the recordNovember 19, 2013
We could shrink our deficits and still invest in our families, our health, our schools, science, technology.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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