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Sonny Bono: “It appears from your dialogue here that you are rather emotional about an issue, and I may be going the wrong way, and I…”

On the recordMay 23, 1996
It appears from your dialogue here that you are rather emotional about an issue, and I may be going the wrong way, and I certainly do not want to go against a colleague, but I though it would be a nice gesture on our part to collect funds and buy a flak jacket for the President. I just want to make sure that that is not offensive to the line of dialog that you are using here.
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Sonny Bono
California

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Discussing a proposal to buy a flak jacket for the President.

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