I do not think the taxpayers of this country want to pay for that. And they were not veterans. He did not ask any of the veterans organizations to send veterans. We talked to veterans who were wounded in a hospital in California who said they would have loved to have gone to see their fallen comrades, to go to those cemeteries. They were not asked, and yet the President took a thousand of his closest friends.
Dan Burton: “I do not think the taxpayers of this country want to pay for that. And they were not veterans. He did not ask any of the…”
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Criticizing President Clinton's trip to Normandy and the associated costs.
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