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| President Ford contemplates his response during a debate with Jimmy Carter. During the debate, Ford puzzled viewers when he answered a question about the Soviet Union by saying that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." Since the Cold War was still ongoing in 1976, that statement caused Ford's campaign to lose critical momentum. |
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| During the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe were said to be behind an "iron curtain" of Soviet influence. Winston Churchill made the term famous in 1946 in a speech given at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. |
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