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Robert C. Byrd: “Somewhere, someone had better take a hard look at the huge disconnect between our financial and intellectual support of…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1993
Somewhere, someone had better take a hard look at the huge disconnect between our financial and intellectual support of the United Nations and its goals, and what the American people and the Congress will actually sanction.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Jul 15, 1993

Editor's note · Context

Debating United States participation in the U.N. military operation in Somalia.

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