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Bob Menendez: I hope you will come, after you're the Interior Secretary, with me to the Statue of Liberty, help me break the shackles…

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
I hope you will come, after you're the Interior Secretary, with me to the Statue of Liberty, help me break the shackles on the crown.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Menendez invites Salazar to assist in reopening the Statue of Liberty's crown.

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