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Tom Carper: “Hopefully, if we are vigilant, we are not going to have to close those drapes as they did over there.”

On the recordMarch 14, 2012
Hopefully, if we are vigilant, we are not going to have to close those drapes as they did over there.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Carper expresses hope for vigilance to avoid past mistakes.

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