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Jimmy Carter: “The Department of Energy will be in operation less than 2 months after I signed the enabling legislation.”

On the recordSeptember 12, 1977
The Department of Energy will be in operation less than 2 months after I signed the enabling legislation.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Department of Energy Remarks of the President and Secretary of Energy Schlesinger on the Activation of the Department.

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