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Revealed: the secret plot that brought down Jimmy Carter
Telegraph ^ | 03/19/2023 | Josh White

Posted on 03/20/2023 7:08:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A Texas politician has claimed that he worked with a senior member of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign to convince Iran to delay releasing its hostages during the crisis of 1979 in a bid to derail Jimmy Carter's re-election bid.

Ben Barnes, Texas's former lieutenant governor, has claimed in an interview with The New York Times that John Connally Jr – once a governor of the same state and a high-ranking member of Reagan's election team – took him on a secret diplomatic tour of the Middle East as part of a scheme to damage Carter by convincing Iran to hold on to its American hostages until after the election.

Mr Carter was the US president when 52 diplomats and US citizens were taken hostage at the American embassy in Tehran by college students who supported the Iranian revolution.

Despite diplomatic efforts from the White House, the hostages were held for 444 days and the political crisis significantly damaged the Democratic president's attempt to be re-elected. Mr Carter was heavily defeated by his Republican rival in the election of 1980.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

John Connally was Gov of Texas when I was a kid and then Treasury Secretary for Nixon.
When he retired he did an interview and was asked what does the public not know about Washington DC. His reply was - if you knew what was going on you would go up there and hang everyone.


21 posted on 03/20/2023 7:27:57 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Independently verifiable documentary evidence or it didn’t happen. Prove it!


22 posted on 03/20/2023 7:28:24 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: RatRipper

Yep. Carter was terrible by all accounts. Did Reagan convince Iran to keep “America held hostage” until after the election? Maybe. If not his team some deep state people who hated Carter. For sure some group did. Just my opinion.


23 posted on 03/20/2023 7:32:45 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: drwoof
It was just a good old fashion shellacking, dealt in order to elect a strong, masculine leader to the most powerful position on the planet. It’d sure be nice to see this happen again...

Our electoral systems are too corrupted.

24 posted on 03/20/2023 7:33:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bigbob

Actually Ted Kennedy was a factor in Jimmy’s downfall as well. They hated each other. And the lukewarm support of Kennedy toward’s Carter’s re-election, hurt Carter with the liberals.


25 posted on 03/20/2023 7:34:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dangus

Oh Please not this BS again


26 posted on 03/20/2023 7:34:55 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: RatRipper

Yep. I was about to post such a comment and then read yours.

The lefties started screeching ‘foul play’ almost as soon as the election results were announced and reached ear-splitting heights when Iran released the hostages.


27 posted on 03/20/2023 7:35:30 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cough cough cough BS

I lived through the Carter years as a thinking young adult in Maryland and Georgia. Many people in. Georgia “did not like the man” as a leader of anything.

That article is wishful fiction at best, delusional more likely.


28 posted on 03/20/2023 7:40:17 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL . )
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To: ByteMercenary

Evidently the lefties shout “foul play” every time the WH changes from Dim to Republican (1981, 2001, 2017). But this one time in my lifetime we shouted “foul play” when it went from Republican to Dim (2021), and they call it an “insurrection”.


29 posted on 03/20/2023 7:41:08 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Would Jimmy Carter have won even without the hostage crisis ? I kind of doubt it .


30 posted on 03/20/2023 7:41:10 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: dfwgator

That’s true, Carter was not the kind of Democrat the coastal elites wanted.

But I think the energy crisis that denied Americans the ability to travel and live the way they pleased, the hostage crisis that Carter fumbled, and watching a President who acted weak and apologetic was a real eye-opener for most Americans who saw for the first time the country was on the wrong track. Reagan was a correction as was Trump - we’ll see if it can happen again.


31 posted on 03/20/2023 7:41:36 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

feh...


32 posted on 03/20/2023 7:41:51 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: PGR88

So it would seem, yes, so it would seem.


33 posted on 03/20/2023 7:55:34 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: shotgun
I've got the Billy can in my beer can collection. Probably worth exactly what an aluminum can is worth.

Who would have thought Billy would be the more successful brother?

34 posted on 03/20/2023 7:57:39 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was working in Nova Scotia at the time. (CONFESSION: I voted for Carter.) A record store in the local mall was selling “Ronald Reagan End Of The World Tour” T-shirts.

Today, I wish I’d bought one, though it probably wouldn’t fit . . .


35 posted on 03/20/2023 7:59:49 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Carter was ike Biden. Craved for a long time to be President and when he finally made it found out the job requirements greatly surpassed his abilities.


36 posted on 03/20/2023 8:00:57 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

Difference is, Carter was no puppet, which is more than I can say about Obama and Biden. They are controlled.


37 posted on 03/20/2023 8:03:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah. The economy had nothing to do with his loss.


38 posted on 03/20/2023 8:03:55 AM PDT by pas
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Operation Eagle Claw sealed the demise of the Carter administration.

From late April 1980 until the following January, Carter was a lame duck.

39 posted on 03/20/2023 8:07:43 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That was pretty obvious considering that the hostages were released 1 minute after Reagan was sworn in.


40 posted on 03/20/2023 8:28:36 AM PDT by TomGuy
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