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Jimmy Carter: “We now spend almost 60 percent of our total military budget on personnel.”

On the recordJune 26, 1977
We now spend almost 60 percent of our total military budget on personnel.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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President's Commission on Military Compensation Remarks to Members of the Commission

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