“So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like”

— Tom DeLay

myself
On why he and Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Tim Fleck, January 7, 1999, "Which Bug Gets the Gas?" Houston Press.
1990s

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