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George H.W. Bush: “How many great ideas, how many grand and noble experiments have been impaled on the narrow spike of a Federal directive?”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1989
How many great ideas, how many grand and noble experiments have been impaled on the narrow spike of a Federal directive?
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks at the University of Virginia Convocation in Charlottesville

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