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Jimmy Carter: This excessive importing of foreign oil is a tremendous and rapidly increasing drain on our national economy.

On the recordNovember 7, 1977
This excessive importing of foreign oil is a tremendous and rapidly increasing drain on our national economy.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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National Energy Plan: Address to the Nation

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