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Robert C. Byrd: “The time to put our energies and treasures into our own backyard has arrived. There is no place like home, and home…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 1991
The time to put our energies and treasures into our own backyard has arrived. There is no place like home, and home needs our undivided attention for some years to come.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Feb 28, 1991

Editor's note · Context

Speaking on the end of the Persian Gulf war and the need to invest in domestic infrastructure.

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