Maura Healey: “I had the opportunity to appoint the state's first ever…”

“I want to take a moment to recognize our great Secretary of Veterans Services. You know, just over three years ago, I had the opportunity to appoint the state's first ever Secretary of Veterans Services. And we could not have found a better person than John Santiago. Secretary Santiago, you have given a historic, and I mean that, a historic and lasting gift to the state's veterans and to our state.” (27:24–27:37)

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