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Jimmy Carter: “I wanted someone who not only was a theoretician or a distinguished economist--which Ray Marshall is certainly capable…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 1977
I wanted someone who not only was a theoretician or a distinguished economist--which Ray Marshall is certainly capable of exhibiting--but I also wanted somebody who knows in practical terms the impact of unemployment on an individual human being or an individual family in our country.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Secretary of Labor Remarks at the Swearing In of F. Ray Marshall

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