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On the recordJuly 14, 1977
My goal is that at the end of the following fiscal year, in October, on October 1 of 1978, that we would have no more employees in the Federal Government than we had in October of 1976.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Interview With the President Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With a Group of Editors and News Directors.

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