Bush promotes goal of helping minorities to buy homes

Tuesday, June 18, 2002

ATLANTA -- In the red dirt of a new housing development, President Bush fidgeted at the controls of a concrete mixer Monday and promoted a goal of helping 5.5 million black and Hispanic families buy homes before the end of the decade.

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