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Jimmy Carter: We simply cannot allow the huge increases in the prices of energy and housing to set off double-digit inflation in wages…

On the recordSeptember 24, 1979
We simply cannot allow the huge increases in the prices of energy and housing to set off double-digit inflation in wages and other prices.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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August Consumer Price Index White House Statement

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