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On the recordNovember 11, 1991
Intelligence remains our basic national instrument for anticipating danger: military, political and economic.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence

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