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White House Releases Bush Guard Records

By Don Gonyea

Published February 13, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

The White House makes more than 300 pages of documents available to the news media in an effort to answer questions about whether President Bush fulfilled his National Guard service during the Vietnam War. It's presented as the complete record of the president's service, but there are few specifics to place Bush at an Alabama air base in 1972 and 1973. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

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