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Bill Clinton’s Unused 1995 White House Correspondents Dinner Speech

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It's that time again: The White House Correspondents' Dinner, when presidents get onstage and yuk it up for a roomful of reporters they normally prefer to evade. But real-world problems sometimes get in the way, as they did in 1995 when Bill Clinton's planned speech was dropped in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. Speechwriter Mark Katz quickly scrambled to tone down the jokes. Herewith, the Clinton speech that could have been.

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