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    "ocrText": "THE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary\n(Chicago, Illinois)\nFor Immediate Release\nAugust 3, 1999\nCLOSING REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT\nAT THE NATIONAL FORUM ON WELFARE TO WORK\nNavy Pier Festival Hall\nChicago, Illinois\n12:25 P.M. CDT\nTHE PRESIDENT: I've been asked to announce that as soon as we\nadjourn this meeting, in this very spot Rodney will be offering memory\ntraining for everyone who would like to stay. (Applause.)\nI want to thank you for you devotion to this cause. And, Jim,\nthank you for giving us this fine man. I just want to ask you all to think\nabout something -- you know, while Rodney was talking to all the people here,\nI just got to sit here in the middle, and so I could see everybody else. And\nI would turn around, and I would look -- every time somebody was talking I\nwould look at every face in the section. And what I saw was that all of us\nhad the natural human response we were exhilarated by the stories that\nthese people told. We were gratified by the enlightened self-interest of the\nemployers.\nI had a funny thing happen to me a couple of weeks ago -- we were\nin an unrelated fight in Washington, and one of the people who took the\nopposite position from me said, oh, the President is always up there telling\nstories, what have stories got to do with this? Well, we found out today,\ndidn't we? I mean, all of our lives are nothing but our stories. (Applause.)\nI say this -- one of our small business owners said that she was\nonce on public assistance herself. I'm in a line of\nwork where every politician would like you to believe that we\nwere all born in log cabins that we built ourselves. (Laughter.)"
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