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George W. Bush: “A hopeful America is an America in which each child can read and write and add and subtract.”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2003
A hopeful America is an America in which each child can read and write and add and subtract.
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Hyde Park Elementary School in Jacksonville

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