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Evan Bayh: “The closer you got to the center of the city where Susan was, the worse and worse things got.”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2011
The closer you got to the center of the city where Susan was, the worse and worse things got.
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Evan Bayh

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Bayh describes the devastation he witnessed in Christchurch after the earthquake.

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