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Robert Ehrlich: “It is a pleasure being with everybody. Demagogues hate facts, but truth usually wins out.”

On the recordMay 9, 1996
It is a pleasure being with everybody. Demagogues hate facts, but truth usually wins out.
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Robert Ehrlich
Maryland

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Discussing the importance of truth in political discourse.

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