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George W. Bush: “We have seen our fellow citizens left stunned and uprooted and witnessed the kind of desperation no citizen of this…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2005
We have seen our fellow citizens left stunned and uprooted and witnessed the kind of desperation no citizen of this great and generous Nation should ever have to know.
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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