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George H.W. Bush: “The United States will offer assistance not to prop up the status quo but to propel reform.”

On the recordJuly 11, 1989
The United States will offer assistance not to prop up the status quo but to propel reform.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks to Students and Faculty at Karl Marx University in Budapest

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