Jimmy Carter actually said...

The United States is being severely tested today—tested for our moral courage, tested for our willingness to forgo economic profit, tested for our basic military strength, tested for our national unity, tested for our economic strength.

Context

White House Conference on Small Business Remarks at the Opening Session of the Conference

01/12/1980

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