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Jimmy Carter: NATO was the middle-aged alliance, that new initiatives would be useful in redirecting it to new tasks.

On the recordMay 9, 1977
NATO was the middle-aged alliance, that new initiatives would be useful in redirecting it to new tasks.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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News Conference by Henry Owen, the President's Special Representative for Preparations at the NATO Ministerial Meeting...

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