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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1979 Address at Commencement Exercises at Notre Dame University, May 22, 1977, Public Papers of the Presidents: Jimmy Carter Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office (1977)Address at Southern Methodist University, March 26, 1984 Address at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 17, 1978, Public Papers of the Presidents: Jimmy Carter Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office (1979)Addresses of James Earl Carter, 1971-1975 comp. Frank Daniel, Atlanta, Ben W. Fortson, Jr., Secretary of State (1975)

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Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I'm not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) (b. 1924), U.S. president. Georgia Governors in an Age of Change, p. 250, edited by Harold P. Henderson and Gary L. Roberts; Athens: University of Georgia Press (1988).

Commenting in 1985 on his governorship of Georgia, 1971-75.

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