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Jeremiah Smith: “I'm reading the President's quote. ``The best possible future would be a democratic Russia committed to the security of…”

On the recordApril 27, 1998
I'm reading the President's quote. ``The best possible future would be a democratic Russia committed to the security of all of its European neighbors. We should not foreclose it.'' That was the time he followed in President Bush's footsteps of supporting the Partnership for Peace, which I also support. Now something has intervened--perhaps the election of 1996--that caused him now to change his mind, and suddenly now there is this urgent need to have these three nations become part of NATO.
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Jeremiah Smith
Federalist · New Hampshire
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Discussing U.S. foreign policy regarding NATO expansion and Russia.

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