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On the recordAugust 18, 1991
This move was extra-constitutional, outside of the constitutional provisions for governmental change.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine, on the Attempted Coup in the Soviet Union

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