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Barack Obama: “I promise you, I did not run for President to bail out banks or intervene in capital markets.”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2009
I promise you, I did not run for President to bail out banks or intervene in capital markets.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in New York City

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