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On the recordMarch 9, 1989
Too many lives have been imperiled or lost to drugs, too much human potential is being ground up and wasted.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing-in Ceremony for Louis W. Sullivan as Secretary of Health and Human Services

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