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Lindsey Graham: “As I indicated, it is my intention, at an appropriate time, to seek recognition to make a statement of policy relative…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2001
As I indicated, it is my intention, at an appropriate time, to seek recognition to make a statement of policy relative to the ill wisdom of the United States under these circumstances providing financing for the sale of agricultural products to Fidel Castro that he can then use for whatever sources of intimidation and control he would put them to, as he has to so many other aspects of the life of the Cuban people over the last 40-plus years.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. policy on financing agricultural sales to Cuba during Senate floor debate.

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