"They enabled poor and working-class Americans to gain access to the good life, " said Jeff Wiltse, a history professor at the University of Montana and author of a social history of swimming pools.

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Senator JEFF SESSIONS (Republican, Alabama): What interest should be served: the interest of poor people or those around the world?

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