President Obama Remarks on AIG
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 19th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
President Obama Remarks on AIG
SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: We’re about — I’m about to go to California, but I wanted to make sure that I had a chance to address all of you before we leave. And we’re going to have a town hall meeting there in which we’re going to be answering questions from voters about a whol…
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