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Joe Biden: “Jessica's health was beginning to decline. She is a young woman in the 30s. We wanted to act and they did.”

On the recordJanuary 24, 2012
Jessica's health was beginning to decline. She is a young woman in the 30s. We wanted to act and they did.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Biden discusses the urgency of the mission to rescue Jessica Buchanan due to her declining health.

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