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Jimmy Carter: It would be highly undesirable to grant such an agency the ability and mission to deal with foreign governments…

On the recordDecember 23, 1980
It would be highly undesirable to grant such an agency the ability and mission to deal with foreign governments directly.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Memorandum of Disapproval of the National Tourism Policy Bill

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