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George H.W. Bush: “I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1992
I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the grave events that had occurred in the Republic of Haiti.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Notice on Continuation of Haitian Emergency

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