Slightly under $1 trillion for all of the administrations down to the last minute of the fiscal year for which Mr. Carter was responsible, and then comparing that figure, which was under $1 trillion, with the massive debt of $4.316 trillion, down to the last minute of the last fiscal year for which Mr. Bush was responsible. I am talking about the Reagan-Bush budgets. They are the largest part of that massive pile of books there.
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