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On the recordSeptember 7, 1977
President Balaguer has set an example for all leaders in this nation in changing his own country and his own people away from a former totalitarian government to one of increasingly pure democracy.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Meeting With President Joaquin Balaguer of the Dominican Republic Remarks to Reporters Following

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