Jimmy Carter: “I know that the pessimists are wrong when they say that the Great…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1976

I know that the pessimists are wrong when they say that the Great Society 'promised too much.'

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Democratic · Georgia

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Statement for the Lyndon B. Johnson/John F. Kennedy Libraries Symposium on The Great Society Held in Austin

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