Jimmy Carter actually said...

This new Department is the first major result of our efforts to reorganize the Federal bureaucracy to serve the American people more efficiently.

Department of Energy Remarks of the President and Secretary of Energy Schlesinger on the Activation of the Department.

09/12/1977

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