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Barack Obama: “If there is just one thing, one thing that we could do that would save just one child, don't we have an obligation to…”

On the recordMay 22, 2013
If there is just one thing, one thing that we could do that would save just one child, don't we have an obligation to try?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the moral obligation to save children.

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