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Harry Reid: “We would be better off if everyone in this very delicate Presidential election would follow the lead of the Senator from…”

On the recordApril 28, 2004
We would be better off if everyone in this very delicate Presidential election would follow the lead of the Senator from Arizona. We do not need, in my opinion, to get into what went on in Vietnam. We are proud of what Senator Kerry has done, and whatever President Bush has done, he is Commander in Chief now. It would be better off for everybody, I repeat, for the second time, if we followed the lead of the Senator from Arizona and not question what went on during those war years. I think we need to get back to the real issues; that is, how we are going to finish the situation in Iraq, what we are going to do about the economy, health care, the environment, and all those other issues. The third time: We would all be better off if we followed the example of the Senator from Arizona.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need to focus on key issues during the 2004 Presidential election.

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