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Jimmy Carter: “The severe impacts on our economy—and potentially on our political and social institutions—posed by the prospective oil…”

On the recordJuly 19, 1979
The severe impacts on our economy—and potentially on our political and social institutions—posed by the prospective oil stringencies of the 1980's have not been fully recognized.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Department of Energy Exchange of Letters on the Resignation of James R. Schlesinger as Secretary

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