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August 21, 2012

Obama Defends Call for Romney to Release Tax Returns 
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Speaking to reporters at the White House, President Obama defended his
repeated calls for Mitt Romney to release his tax returns.

President Obama: "The American people have assumed that if you want to
be President of the United States that your life is an open book when it
comes to things like your finances. I am not asking him to disclose
every detail of his medical records, although we normally do that as
well. But you know, I mean this isn't sort of overly personal guys. This
is pretty standard stuff. I don't think we are being mean by asking you
to do what every other presidential candidate has done, right?"

 

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