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Jimmy Carter: “This inability to pay threatened the existence of programs vital to the United States in such fields as nuclear…”

On the recordAugust 14, 1979
This inability to pay threatened the existence of programs vital to the United States in such fields as nuclear safeguards, air safety, and international health.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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