Jimmy Carter actually said...

I promised you in my own campaign more than 3 years ago, that if I was elected President that one of my goals would be to establish a separate Department of Education.

Context

Department of Education Remarks at the Swearing In of Shirley Hufstedler as Secretary

12/05/1979

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