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On the recordJanuary 27, 1980
This budget encompasses a strong commitment to our defense.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Budget Message Remarks at the Signing Ceremony

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But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way presidents have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.

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