David Remnick and Ryan Lizza on Obama’s legacy.
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🗓️ 21 January 2014
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David Remnick and Ryan Lizza on Obama's legacy.
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| 1:14.4 | about politics. It's Monday, January 20th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:20.3 | I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road |
| 1:25.9 | to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, |
| 1:30.0 | homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. |
| 1:35.8 | That was Illinois State Senator Barack Obama giving the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. |
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| 1:53.5 | choices that benefit not just the people who've done fantastically well over the last |
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