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Jimmy Carter: I cannot foreclose the option that I have to act unilaterally through Executive order if the Congress does not act.

On the recordAugust 16, 1978
I cannot foreclose the option that I have to act unilaterally through Executive order if the Congress does not act.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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