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Official portrait for President Jimmy Carter, 1978.

Carter, Jimmy 1924-

Official portrait for President Jimmy Carter, 1978.

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January 20, 1980

Letter by President Jimmy Carter to the President of the United States Olympic Committee Robert Kane

Jimmy Carter explains his call for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in reponse to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

June 8, 1978

Speech by L.I. Brezhnev to CPSU CC Politburo, 08 June 1978

Concerns US-Soviet relations, including involvement in Africa, NATO, China, and SALT.

January 4, 1980

Jimmy Carter, 'Address to the Nation on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan'

Jimmy Carter proposes sanctions in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

December 29, 1979

Excerpt from the Minutes of the CC CPSU Politburo Meeting, 'Reply to an appeal of President Carter about the issue of Afghanistan through the direct communications channel'

Soviet letter to US President Jimmy Carter responding to the US position on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The CC CPSU Politburo informs the White House that the Soviet leadership desires to maintain detente with the US and that the intervention of Soviet troops was done at the request of the Afgan leadership, under Article 51 of the UN charter.

July 11, 1978

Political Letter of Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly F. Dobrynin

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