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Barack Obama: Our task as a nation has to be to get behind what you're doing.

On the recordAugust 15, 2011
Our task as a nation has to be to get behind what you're doing.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Closing Session of the White House Rural Economic Forum in Peosta

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