Jimmy Carter actually said...

The continuation of the kind of price and cost increases that we have been witnessing clearly jeopardizes our efforts to achieve a deceleration in the overall rate of inflation.

Context

Memorandum for the Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability on the Study of Steel Industry Prices and Costs

08/04/1977

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