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Barack Obama: “I want to thank all of you today for the warm welcome and for the work that all of you are doing to generate and test…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2009
I want to thank all of you today for the warm welcome and for the work that all of you are doing to generate and test new ideas that hold so much promise for our economy and for our lives.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
Source
presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge

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