First press conference ever of a U.S. President from behind the Iron Curtain, from the Victoria Hotel in Warsaw, Poland
Carter answers questions about nuclear arms and biochemical warfare reduction, daily communications with Arab leaders, U.S. preference for a Palestinian homeland connected with Jordan, his Baptist faith and his hopes for more religious freedom in all countries, his hopes that Soviet influence on Poland will diminish, the Helsinki and Belgrade conferences on human rights, increasing human rights in Poland, the energy crisis in the world, but maily in the U.S., US-Polish economic intercourse, up to one billion dollards in 1978; the neutron bomb, his hopes that Poles can visit family members in the US and vice versa; includes post-interview comments on the state of Polish Jews. With reporter Roger Mudd.
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- No Copyright
- Date
- 1977-12-30
- Subjects
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Diplomatic relations
Poland
United States
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:35:00
- Venue Note
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Broadcast on CBS TV, December 30, 1977.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 1655
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6710345
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