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Jimmy Carter: It tests the character and the will of the American people to do what's fair, what's right, what's decent.

On the recordSeptember 7, 1977
It tests the character and the will of the American people to do what's fair, what's right, what's decent.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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