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Radio 4,22 Jan 1999,15 mins

Striving for a More Perfect Union

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke reflects on Clinton's State of the Union address and asks why the only national holiday named after a human being is Rev. Martin Luther King Day.

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