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OCR Page 1 of 332Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign
TRANSCRIPT OF FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING
Plains, Georgia
July 29, 1976
GOVERNOR CARTER: This will be the last issues session this week. We intend
to schedule others for future learning processes for myself and Senator Mondale.
Today we had a joint discussion about foreign affairs. We emphasized the point
that we are trying to learn as much as we possibly can about the interrela-
tionship between our nation and others so that we can present to the world a
foreign policy that is understood by the American people, which is predictable,
which has an acknowledged purpose, which can have bipartisan support, which
can regain the trust of other nations in our country and which can accurately
represent the character of the American people.
We had specific discussions about the African nations, and particular emphasis
today throughout the discussions on the developing nations of the world. Those
who have been most sadly neglected in our own nation's emphasis in the past
few years under President Nixon and President Ford and Mr. Kissinger. I think
this is the first time, certainly, that any presidential candidate has ever
spent so much time studying the particular problems of the developing nations
but there is a very legitimate reason for it because of the past neglect and
because of the importance the crucial nature -- for the future. We
discussed our relationship on an East-West basis, specifically, of course,
with the People's Republic of China and with the Soviet Union. We discussed
the Middle East and the Mediterranean area and within the special framework of
the developing nations discussion, in addition to Africa, we discussed countries
in our own hemisphere.
We also tried to analyze the proper interrelationship derived from the Monday
meeting between correlating defense policy establishment and foreign policy --
our political interrelationship with other countries. We discussed some
creative approaches to SALT II talks and we were particularly concerned in the
Middle East in emphasizing the fact that without a complete confidence in our
own government's position on the Middle Eastern question within Israel, that
there can be no, or very little, possibility of an ultimate settlement in
the Middle East.
We also discussed our relationship with South Africa, and Rhodesia, with an
understanding that there would be no yielding on our part on the issue of
human rights and majority rule. The other point that we did discuss was South
America. The fact that we should get away permanently from an attitude of
paternalism or punishment or retribution when some of the South Americans didn't
P. .O. Box 1976 Atlanta, Georgia 30301 404/897-7100
A copy of our report is filed with the Federal Election Commission and is available for purchase from the Federa! Election Commission. Woshington, D.C.
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