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On the recordDecember 19, 2007
I'm trying to be as accurate as I can be, and the -- if you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term 'saw' includes being aware of in the sense I've described. It's a figure of speech and very familiar, and it's very common.
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Mitt Romney
Republican · Utah

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Romney explains his statement about seeing his father march with Martin Luther King, clarifying it was a figure of speech.

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