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Jimmy Carter: We have agreed to double our own monthly quota of refugees coming from Vietnam.

On the recordJune 28, 1979
We have agreed to double our own monthly quota of refugees coming from Vietnam.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Tokyo Economic Summit Conference Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters

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