Jimmy Carter actually said...

I hope that when the record of my administration is written that the historians say that under the Carter administration, our Nation was secure, that our Nation was at peace.

Context

Bardstown, Kentucky Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a Town Meeting

07/30/1979

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