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On the recordSeptember 23, 1980
This is indeed a rural program of comprehensive development, initiated and controlled and forged at the grassroots level.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Remarks on Signing Into Law the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980

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