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Richard K. Armey: “If I may close this and if I may dare speak for the body, Joelle, we wish you Godspeed; and in the best spirit of a…”

On the recordApril 26, 2001
If I may close this and if I may dare speak for the body, Joelle, we wish you Godspeed; and in the best spirit of a Texas country western song, let me say, we miss you already, and you are not even gone.
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Richard K. Armey
Texas

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Offering farewell remarks to a departing colleague.

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