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Sheldon Whitehouse: “I think you and I share the belief that the better we remember this, the less likely it is to be repeated.”

On the recordJune 8, 2009
I think you and I share the belief that the better we remember this, the less likely it is to be repeated.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse stresses the importance of institutional memory to prevent past mistakes.

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