BONUS - Clint Eastwood's Chair Speech

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BONUS - Clint Eastwood's Chair Speech

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Nov 21, 2018

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"But OK. You want to make my day, huh...?" At the 2012 Republican National Convention, America's most durable movie star confronted an invisible Barack Obama. We revisit the speech that made history.

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