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On the recordMarch 1, 2011
Before you arrived here, you spent many years in the California legislature, where I had the privilege of working with you. You started the discussion about your own Peace Corps experience by answering the call to action, President Kennedy's very famous call: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. I know that for you and for myself, and even more so for my wife Patti----
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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