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Jimmy Carter: We cannot profess to love humanity and watch hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children die in human tragedy…

On the recordOctober 5, 1979
We cannot profess to love humanity and watch hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children die in human tragedy, which we ourselves can help, as a nation and as people, to prevent.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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