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Tommy Thompson: “We said, there's going to be mental health problems. And we…”

Featuring: Tommy Thompson, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Ep26 - HHS Then & Now with Tommy Thompson

Published | Video Starts at 06:22

It was so sad. You and I went in the morgue and talked to those wonderful people working, and they said, please, we need help. And We said, there's going to be mental health problems. And we turn that to our assistant, Charlie, and says, you gotta set up a conference. He said, well, we probably could do one next year. And I said, no, it's gotta be this year. And it was set up for November 19 that year, about two months later. (06:22–06:32)

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Asserts that Tommy Thompson anticipated mental health issues post-9/11 and initiated a conference to address them.

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