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On the recordMay 21, 1977
To let this opportunity pass could mean disaster not only for the Middle East but, perhaps, for the international political and economic order as well.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Address at Commencement Exercises at the University of Notre Dame

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