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Jimmy Carter: My election can be in your hands, and what you decide the next few hours about the degree of your commitment-to raise…

On the recordOctober 14, 1980
My election can be in your hands, and what you decide the next few hours about the degree of your commitment-to raise money, you finance it; to designate workers, you do it; to lead those workers, you do it.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Secaucus, New Jersey Remarks at a Meeting With New Jersey Labor Leaders

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