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On the recordApril 2, 1978
It’s a matter of the United States acting in its own best interests, because we know, now and in the future, that our economic well-being... can only come with a stable, free, and independent Africa.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Toasts at a Working Luncheon in Monrovia, Liberia

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