"The dream that so many generations have fought for feels like it's slowly slipping away, " Obama said.

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Rogers landed the conversion and a game well within Ireland's compass started slowly slipping away from them.

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We heard people wondering if the dream that generations of Americans had built and defended was slowly slipping away.

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