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On the recordDecember 11, 1979
The most wasteful and self-defeating thing that we could do would be to start this necessary program, then alter it or cut it back after a year or two.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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United States Defense Policy Remarks to Members of the Business Council

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