SCR196: The Secrets of Independence Day

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The presidential speech was written in five minutes as a placeholder. Nobody replaced it. Yet people are still quoting it three decades later. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Leonardi trace its roots — Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas — on Independence Day at 30.

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