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Carter's 1979 Warnings of Dependency on Middle East Oil
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 23, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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1979 Carter
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if he was going to have any chance of reelection in         , he needed to demonstrate that he had a viable plan for remedying the economic woes
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Carter didn't turn around the               
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critics blamed him for events             
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November 1980              won
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what Carter tried to do in 1979
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Carter didn't believe that the        crisis was the main problem
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but only a symptom of the problem
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the problem was a self-indulgence and                       
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human identity is no longer determined by what one does but what one         
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we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for               
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piling up material goods cannot fill up lives that have no confidence or               
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he meant                  Americans
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Carter's answer
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we are at a                point of our history
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the path that leads to                            and self-interest
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down that road lies a mistaken idea of               
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the right to grasp for ourself some advantage over others
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the promises of our future point to another path
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the path of common purpose and the restoration of           
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we need a            renewal
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energy will be our test to            this nation
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on the battlefield of             , we can win
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outlined an energy strategy which reduced dependence on                oil
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invest in the development of                        energy
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conserve and learn to get by with less
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                 our sense of unity
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Americans would have to tighten their belts but they would become a              people
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but it didn't sell well
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Americans wanted         , not less
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sacrifice is something for              to do
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they don't like to be blamed for the country's ills
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the most effective response came from Reagan
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we must decide that less is not             
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Americans will            settle for less
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having more was itself a virtue
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Americans have no need for                  in the definition of freedom
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in retrospect, Jimmy Carter's warnings had                    meaning on the next 35 years in our dealings with the Middle East
Events of 1979 That Changed American Foreign Policy
Carter's 1979 Warnings of Dependency on Middle East Oil
1980s: CENTCOM and Operation Bright Star
1980s: The United States, Iran and Iraq