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Social Secretary Quotes: Gahl Hodges Burt
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Social Secretary Quotes: Gahl Hodges Burt
Social Secretary Gahl Burt, Hannelore Kohl, and First Lady Nancy Reagan have tea on the North Portico during the State Visit of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Federal Republic of Germany. October 21, 1986.
Gahl Hodges Burt, social secretary in the Reagan administration, 1983 to 1985
“The White House should always be looked to as the arbiter of everything….Have everything at a level [that] the rest of the country can look up to.”
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