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Obama Delivers Back-To-School Speech

By Claudio Sanchez

Published September 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM EDT

(SOUNDBITE OF CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Claudio Sanchez

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