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Jimmy Carter: These extraordinary circumstances demand prompt and forceful response by the United States.

On the recordJanuary 20, 1980
These extraordinary circumstances demand prompt and forceful response by the United States.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Shipments of Agricultural Commodities to the Soviet Union Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate...

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