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BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we
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BUSH: ... You bet there's things that government can do. We can work with the entertainment industry to provide family hour. We can have filters on
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JOYCE CLEAMER, AUDIENCE MEMBER: …I'm very concerned about the morality of our country now. TV, movies, the music that our children are, you know, barraged with every day. And I want to know if there's anything that can be worked out with the—Hollywood, or whoever, to help get rid of some of this bad
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