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James G. Watt

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We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.
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Speaking before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983, in reference to members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing

 
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