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Joe Biden: “Let me tell you something: Nobody asked anybody else whether they're gay in those holes, those foxholes, number one.”

On the recordJune 3, 2007
Let me tell you something: Nobody asked anybody else whether they're gay in those holes, those foxholes, number one.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Biden argues for ending the don't-ask/don't-tell policy in the military.

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