Carter reflected on 1980 Olympic boycott: ‘A bad decision’
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FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses during a speech to applaud the U.S. Olympic Committee's stand on the Moscow Olympics, Feb. 1, 1980, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File)FILE - A wide-angle lens captures the assembled members of Congress in the House Chamber for Carter's State of The Union address in Washington on Jan. 23, 1980. (AP Photo, File)FILE - From left, Belgian representative to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Prince Alexandre de Merode, President of the Belgian Olympic Committee Raoul Mollet, General Secretary of the U.S. Olympic Committee Col. F. Don Miller, and President of the West German Olympic Committee Willi Daume, are seen during a meeting of officials from 18 Western European Olympic committees to discuss a possible boycott of the MOscow Olympic games on March 22, 1980, in Brussels. (AP Photo/Pierre Thielemans, File)FILE - F. Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, reads a resolution adopted by the U.S. Olympic Committee's House of Delegates to boycott the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, in Colorado Springs, Colo., April 12, 1980. At left is Robert Kane, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)FILE - Anita DeFrantz, spokeswoman for the U.S. Olympic Committee's Athletes Advisory Council, flanked by Larry Hough, left, and Fred Newhouse right, answers questions from reporters outside the White House in Washington on April 4, 1980, after White House officials rejected a proposal that would have allowed American athletes to compete at the summer Olympic Games in Moscow. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Passersby examine the new Olympic billboard reading, "Sport Serves Peace," erected after the United States announced it was boycotting the games in Moscow on April 23, 1980. (AP Photo/Yurchenko, File)FILE - Flag and sign bearers march around Moscow's Lenin Stadium during closing ceremonies of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, on Aug. 3, 1980. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses during a speech to applaud the U.S. Olympic Committee's stand on the Moscow Olympics, Feb. 1, 1980, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File)
