Jimmy Carter actually said...

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.

Context

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

07/19/1979

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