No. I would like for them to be released today, but I don't have any reason to predict that they will.
Jimmy Carter: “No. I would like for them to be released today, but I don't have any reason to predict that they will.”
On the recordOctober 16, 1980
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Interview With the President Question-and-Answer Session with the Editorial Board of Associated Press
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