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On the recordOctober 22, 1992
Well, gosh. Back then, I don't think anybody would have done that. It was quite different. It's hard for people to understand it. I make a distinction. We get protests out there, Barbara and I do. We have dinner in a little dining room upstairs in the White House, and you look out, and there's always some group out there. Sometimes they're a bunch of weirdos, and sometimes they're very genuine, people that want to protest something, and I understand that. It's a distinction that I think has a difference, but it's legally--I'm not a lawyer, so I can't prove it. I just think it is morally indefensible--and maybe it is generational, because I did fight for the country, and I was in combat. I just think it's morally indefensible to go to a foreign country, particularly with the record that we heard a little bit about here tonight, and organize demonstrations against your own country in a foreign land. Come to the White House and do it. It's not legal--it's not a legal difference. It's not a legal difference. It's just--tell you what I think--obviously have a little trouble getting you to agree with me. North American Free Trade Agreement
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George H.W. Bush
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