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Jimmy Carter

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter is describing the intense responsibility he faced while leading the country during a time when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons to cause total global destruction.

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