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Jimmy Carter: “The biggest cancer that was growing that threatened to destroy our relationship with all the nations to the south was…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 1978
The biggest cancer that was growing that threatened to destroy our relationship with all the nations to the south was the Panama Canal treaties.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Interview With the President Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Senior Editors on Latin American Affairs

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