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Jimmy Carter: There are 2 million families in our country that depend for their livelihood on tobacco farmers.

On the recordAugust 4, 1978
There are 2 million families in our country that depend for their livelihood on tobacco farmers.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Growers Cooperative Warehouse, Inc. in Wilson, North Carolina

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