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On the recordMarch 2, 2009
We felt there was no alternative. Throughout the restructuring, we have tried to do everything we can to make sure that the main focus of the company... is to make the company viable enough that it can sell itself off, sell off its non-core businesses, and repay the taxpayers as soon as possible.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke outlines the objective of restructuring AIG to repay taxpayers.

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