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Well, I think we took that position to a certain degree during the campaign which was a very difficult position to take because nobody had ever in the South run a campaign against a racist attack by being decent.
Terry Sanford Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Cindy Cheatham, December 18, 1990; Southern Oral History Program, Interview L-0050, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Terry Sanford, Interview L-0050
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- 1990
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