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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.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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