FULL SPEECH: Former President Obama eulogizes civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis
President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis. He called the congressman and civil rights giant "God's finest disciple" and the "founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.
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