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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Funny this should come out as carter is on his last legs and the eulogy needs to be rewritten to say he wasn’t the (2nd) worst president ever.
What the hell?
I remember Carters presidency…
The energy crisis and gas rationing, getting gas on odd/even days by license plate number.
Double digit inflation.
High unemployment.
The Iran Hostage crisis was background noise.
Also, he created the US Department of Education in order to buy the votes of the Teachers Union.
Worst. President. Ever. … until Obama, and now Biden.
Sad
Yeah, that goober was a loser. He must feel great now that he has dropped to third worst Pres.
This absurd fantasy will be treated as gospel by the Left because it was published online.
Sure he did....
The rewrite of history continues.
So HE was the guy in the SR-71.
They hate Christians. Jimma Carter is a Christian.
IOW, we should chip in and send him a balloon bouquet and a basket of muffins.
Considering it was after the inauguration rather than the 2nd week of November 1980, your conspiracy theories hold as much weight as sasquatch
Reagan beat the incumbent with 44 states and took that to 49 states in the next election against the incumbent’s veep.
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