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Robert C. Byrd: “What we take out of the schools today, we will take out of the Nation a generation from today.”

On the recordJune 25, 1992
What we take out of the schools today, we will take out of the Nation a generation from today.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Jun 25, 1992

Editor's note · Context

Contrasting a school prayer amendment with a proposed constitutional amendment he opposes as a threat to the separation of powers.

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