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Jimmy Carter: “I tell you flatly, with the perfect knowledge that if I make a mistake it's going to hurt me, I make this prediction…”

On the recordMay 28, 1980
I tell you flatly, with the perfect knowledge that if I make a mistake it's going to hurt me, I make this prediction: that the second half of this year, beginning in the summer, the inflation rate is going to go down too.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Columbus, Ohio Remarks at a Carter/Mondale Campaign Rally

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