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Jimmy Carter: “We want to control our government and not let it control us.”

On the recordOctober 30, 1976
We want to control our government and not let it control us.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Remarks at a Campaign Rally in Dallas, Texas

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