CONWAY — Tim Pawlenty promised to tell Americans the hard truth if elected president when he stopped by Birch Hill on Saturday.
“We’ve got a country in great trouble,” he told a crowd of 75 at a Republican house party, “and we don’t have a long time to fix it.”
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