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Edward M. Kennedy: “I think that expression was from those young people who were attending the course at a high school in Chicago. The…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1994
I think that expression was from those young people who were attending the course at a high school in Chicago. The Senator from Illinois asked those young people what they were doing prior to the time they were involved in this program. Their answers were: You would not want to know what we had been doing. A number of them talked about how they were not attending school. As the Senator understands, the attentiveness and interest and sense of pride and sense of achievement and accomplishment that radiated out of that classroom in a very tough area of the city, and the sense of pride as well of those business leaders in terms of their involvement in that community, was inspiring.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts

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The speaker discusses the positive impact of a program on high school students in Chicago.

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