President Carter talks with singer Joan Baez
President Carter talks with singer Joan Baez in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 30, 1979. Baez just returned from a fact-finding trip in Southeast Asia. (UPI Photo/Frank Cancellare/Files)
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