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That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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