Alan Ehrenhalt - Government is about hard choices.

Government is about hard choices.

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Alan Ehrenhalt, Political Editor, Editor, Governing Magazine, How Do We Set the System Straight, Depauw University, C-SPAN, December 6, 1991, How Do We Set the System Straight, Depauw University, C-SPAN, December 6, 1991

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