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Robert C. Byrd: “America is faced with nothing less than the awesome task of virtually reinventing itself. The Soviet Union is gone. A…”

On the recordMarch 13, 1992
America is faced with nothing less than the awesome task of virtually reinventing itself. The Soviet Union is gone. A now over bloated military machine must be down-scaled, reshaped, and absorbed into a shaky domestic economy.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Mar 13, 1992

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Describing the nation's economic problems and the need for new priorities.

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