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Jimmy Carter: “My own inclination, when a decision must be reached, would be to give those responsibilities to State and local…”

On the recordJuly 8, 1977
My own inclination, when a decision must be reached, would be to give those responsibilities to State and local officials.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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