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On the recordSeptember 22, 1980
We hope and we expect that the conflict between Iran and Iraq will not have any effect on the safety or lives of the hostages.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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San Jose, California Informal Exchange With Reporters

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Sep 15, 2009

But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way presidents have ever been accepted even with people who disagree.

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