09/27/1977
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"I never knew either Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy, but I can never forget the impact that their administrations had on my home State of Georgia."
"I will not let statistics obliterate human realities if I am elected President."
"I know that the pessimists are wrong when they say that the Great Society 'promised too much.'"
"I will try to build on the enduring framework of the Great Society and the New Frontier."