Paul Mellon once quipped, 'What this country needs is a good five-cent reverie.'
George H.W. Bush: “Paul Mellon once quipped, 'What this country needs is a good five-cent reverie.'”
On the recordOctober 9, 1991
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Remarks at the Andrew Mellon Dinner
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