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🗓️ 28 July 2025
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0:00.0 | I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home. |
0:02.5 | I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money. |
0:05.7 | I've ruled out uni because of my grades. |
0:10.1 | Study with the Open University and there's no need to rule out anything. |
0:13.9 | With our respected degrees, you can learn from home and work alongside study. |
0:18.1 | We're open to all. Plus, you'll have the support of expert tutors. |
0:22.6 | So rethink your future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. |
0:28.3 | The future is open. |
0:31.3 | When Bill Clinton took office on January 20, 1993 at age 46, he was the first of his generation, the baby boomers born after |
0:40.0 | World War II, to reach the White House. The United States had recently won its four-decade-long |
0:45.8 | Cold War with the Soviet Union, making it the dominant nation in the world. Everything seemed |
0:51.4 | possible. There's nothing wrong with America, Clinton told the inauguration crowd that cannot be cured by |
0:56.7 | what's right with America, but nothing went right in Clinton's first few months on the job. |
1:02.7 | Intending to prove himself as a no-nonsense commander-in-chief, in the summer of 1993, |
1:08.3 | Clinton ordered U.S. troops to capture a troublesome warlord, Muhammad Farah Adid, |
1:13.2 | in Mogadishu, Somalia. Despite the American soldiers' heroic efforts, it was a high-profile disaster. |
1:20.2 | Eighteen Americans had died in the infamous Black Hawk Down incident, and as a result, Clinton got |
1:26.3 | cold feet. He immediately ordered the remaining |
1:29.5 | troops out of the country. The new president looked like a hopeless amateur. That perception |
1:35.2 | only intensified when his proposal to take over the American health care industry, a full |
1:39.9 | one-seventh of the economy, blew up in his face. Aiming to cement his place in history next to |
1:46.2 | Democratic presidential icons, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson, |
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