Jimmy Carter actually said...

Yours is not a sterile responsibility, and it's almost impossible in an embassy in this country to separate matters of foreign policy from matters of domestic policy.

Context

Mexico City, Mexico Remarks at the United States Embassy.

02/13/1979

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