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George H.W. Bush: “Welfare must never be what Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned it might become, 'a subtle destroyer of the spirit.'”

On the recordMarch 8, 1992
Welfare must never be what Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned it might become, 'a subtle destroyer of the spirit.'
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks to the National League of Cities

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