George Bush actually said...

We will not stand by and see either our local economies and jobs literally 'dried up' by drought or our valuable refuges and wetlands parched by lack of water.

Context

Statement on Signing the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991

03/04/1992

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