[DuncanWaring]

Lyndon Johnson authorized the sale of precision miniature ball bearing grinding machines to Russia...

I thought that was Richard Nixon. Brandt grinders, 1972.

Jimmy Carter authorized the sale of precision machine tools for making submarine propellers...

Not that I have any interest in defending the Peanut Farmer, but my recollection is that Toshiba did that on their own.

[Dan(9698)]

You are wrong on both counts.

I lived through those events, so you may have read some spin.

[investigateworld]

That's my recollection too. I know they were banned for a while and a executive there made atonement ;^)