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Jimmy Carter: “Continued inflation, if uncontrolled, will be a threat not only to our own American economy but to the basic societal…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1979
Continued inflation, if uncontrolled, will be a threat not only to our own American economy but to the basic societal structure of our country.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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