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Barack Obama: “The international order that the greatest generation built…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Former President Obama Praises Resistance to Trump

Published | Video Starts at 28:28

It wasn't the workload or, you know. Roswell and where we keep the aliens. You know. Do we? That I suspected. Now, what surprised me most was actually the degree to which. The international order that the greatest generation built after World War II, we underwrote. This enormous. Era of progress that I think we take for granted. I'm 64. From the time I was born in 1961. Over the course of six decades. (28:28–28:36)

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Asserts that the U.S. underwrote the international order post-World War II.

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