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Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • . But there are things which are done by government which only government can do. As Democrats, we have trusted government to do those things which by law and by the Constitution only it can do. And those things certainly are in the area of national defense and personal
  • ; the Equal Rights Amendment; the issue of abortion; checks and balances and separation of powers; the role of government as defined by Democrats and Republicans; the role of humanity in weapons-building; Jordan's beliefs regarding the afterlife.