Jimmy Carter actually said...

We must show the Soviet Union that it cannot expect to continue to do business as usual with the United States while it is invading and occupying an independent nation.

Context

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

01/20/1980

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