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Jimmy Carter: “I would not favor the sending of an American Olympic team to Moscow while the Soviet invasion troops are in Afghanistan.”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1980
I would not favor the sending of an American Olympic team to Moscow while the Soviet invasion troops are in Afghanistan.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Meet the Press Interview with Bill Monroe, Carl T. Rowan, David Broder, and Judy Woodruff

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