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George W. Bush: “Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats; it is a call to conscience.”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2001
Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats; it is a call to conscience.
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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