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FEATURE ARTICLE
The 21 Years War: The Truth and Records of How HIV Infected Four Successive US Presidencies
by Benjamin Ryan
The battle lines were drawn simply and with little fanfare. In September 1981, the US Senate over-rode newly elected President Ronald Reagan's veto of $500,000 in emergency research funds for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to study a mysterious set of deaths in New York and California. It was the opening salvo in the struggle between the new conservative movement and an entrenched liberalism still unaware of the political ground shifting beneath its feet.
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