On the recordMay 1, 2010
I think the President -- the President has asked this team since the beginning of this incident to do everything humanly possible as aggressively as we can, to manage and deal with this emergency.
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presidency.ucsb.eduBarack Obama: “I think the President -- the President has asked this team since the beginning of this incident to do everything humanly…”
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