Jimmy Carter actually said...

This agreement thus forms a new partnership to insure that this vital waterway, so important to all of us, will continue to be well operated, safe, and open to shipping by all nations, now and in the future.

Context

Panama Canal Treaties Remarks at the Signing Ceremony at the Pan American Union Building

09/06/1977

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