“You know, I'm sure I could have done a lot of things much better, but I will tell you this, Tim: I was there.”

— Ray Nagin

Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden
2005

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politician, businessman 1956

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