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Jimmy Carter: Americans sometimes forget that trains are the transportation system of the future, not the past.

On the recordMay 29, 1980
Americans sometimes forget that trains are the transportation system of the future, not the past.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Remarks on Signing Into Law the Northeast Corridor Appropriations Bill

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