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Robert C. Byrd: “If we are going to give the benefit of the doubt, let us give it to the Court. Let us give it to the country.”

On the recordOctober 15, 1991
If we are going to give the benefit of the doubt, let us give it to the Court. Let us give it to the country.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Oct 15, 1991

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Debating the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas.

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