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George W. Bush: “He understood that the peace of the post-cold-war years was really the calm before the next storm.”

On the recordDecember 14, 2006
He understood that the peace of the post-cold-war years was really the calm before the next storm.
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks at an Armed Forces Full Honor Review for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in Arlington, Virginia

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