Word: glenarden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before civility in politics completely broke down, George Bush gave midnight basketball the Republican imprimatur. In 1991 he visited the first such league, in Glenarden, Maryland. "The last thing midnight basketball is about is basketball," President Bush said at the time. "It's about providing opportunity for young adults to escape drugs and the streets and get on with their lives. It's not coincidental that the crime rate is down 60% since this program began...
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