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Patrick Leahy: “The other approach is to be a leader, one that is still the world's only superpower.”

On the recordJune 26, 2018
The other approach is to be a leader, one that is still the world's only superpower.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy contrasts leadership with isolationist policies.

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