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Barack Obama: “It is in the public interest to preserve and protect the objects of historic interest associated with the early…”

On the recordMarch 24, 2013
It is in the public interest to preserve and protect the objects of historic interest associated with the early settlement of Delaware.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 8944—Establishment of the First State National Monument

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