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+CORPUS 1A: A corpus of President Clinton's terrorism-related discourse, for a historical research project. 
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+Period: January 20, 1997 (Clinton’s second term inauguration day) – January 20, 2001 (the day Clinton left office). 
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+Search parameters: All documents on the American Presidency Project site within the above timeframe returned through a keyword search ‘terror*’
+using the wildcard star to return all variants, terrorism, terrorist, etc. Results were further refined to only those associated with 
+William J. Clinton’s name, so as to filter out Bush’s campaign speeches. Further refined by only those documents tagged as
+‘spoken addresses or remarks,’ (to filter out noise from some policy papers, and bureaucratic writs and documents,
+focusing instead on the core, the heart of executive discourse, straight from his speechwriters at the heart of the west-wing). 
+Also, for the sake of a coherent voice in the fine-tuning data. 
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+Composition: a total of 388 records were returned. (including a range of spoken remarks from state of the union addresses, 
+to remarks to various communities all around the US, to remarks to the press, remarks following discussions with foreign dignitaries, etc).
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+Here’s the link to these search results: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/advanced-search?field-keywords=terror%2A&field-keywords2=&field-keywords3=&from%5Bdate%5D=01-20-1997&to%5Bdate%5D=01-20-2001&person2=&items_per_page=100&f%5B0%5D=field_docs_person%3A200298&f%5B1%5D=field_docs_category%3A8
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+Word count pre-cleaning: 955,714
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+Word count post-cleaning: 958,876 (likely due to white-space normalisation as part of the cleaning process).