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Barack Obama: “We would hope and want that it balances between a long tradition of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech.”

On the recordNovember 14, 2011
We would hope and want that it balances between a long tradition of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes

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