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Book: Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan, Sway U.S. Elections.
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| Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 09/16/2003 1:36:00 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party.
Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism."
This book may well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War.
Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with high-ranking Democrats, they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections.
In "Reagan's War," Schweizer shows how the Democrats worked with Moscow to try to undermine Reagan before and after he became president.
Jimmy Carter's Dirty Tricks
Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives show that in January 1984, former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin's residence for a private meeting.
Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan's defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
Using the Russians to influence the presidential election was nothing new for Carter.
Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy.
Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was "clearly alarmed" at the prospect of losing to Reagan.
Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.
'Carter Won't Forget That Service'
"Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.
Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.
Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man."
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: 1980; bookreview; carter; coldwar; democrats; desmondtutu; elections; history; hooverinstitution; iran; jimmycarter; lebanon; limbacher; reaganswar; ronaldreagan; russia; soviets
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To: InterceptPoint
No the story will not show up on the Peter/Dan/Tom circuit. OTOH, this is not news. This story has been floating around for at least a year or so. In that case, it is important for us to keep the story alive until Peter/Dan/Tom acknowledge it.
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posted on
09/16/2003 3:35:35 PM PDT
by
bimbo
To: bimbo
Thanks. All too true.
To: .cnI redruM; Paleo Conservative; Alamo-Girl; onyx; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; ...
Book: Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets
to Stop Reagan, Sway U.S. Elections Excerpt: "Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.
Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.
Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man."
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.
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posted on
09/16/2003 3:40:38 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
To: .cnI redruM
bttt
To: Paleo Conservative
65
posted on
09/16/2003 3:41:32 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Now I hear he's running for Sainthood. That might be tough since he seems to have abandoned the So. Baptists and Christianity.
66
posted on
09/16/2003 3:41:43 PM PDT
by
bimbo
To: .cnI redruM
I thought he was merely incompetent - now we learn that it was deliberate. When will justice be done in this country?
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posted on
09/16/2003 3:44:09 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(And those that cried Appease! Appease! are hanged by those they tried to please!")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
The Carter Center survival was guaranteed by the Pakistani head of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Bank of Crooks and Criminals). Even after indictments were issued, and it was known that BCCI facilitated money laundering and drug trafficking, Jimmy Carter continued to use the BCCI plane in his jaunts around Africa. When asked by a State Department official in Khartoum, Sudan, why he was allowing himself to be used, Carter told the man to shut up and mind his own business. Carter, like Clinton, was a man greedy for power and the trappings of power. No one in their right mind would fund a Carter Center -- except the Muslims, who owned Carter.
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posted on
09/16/2003 3:44:38 PM PDT
by
gaspar
To: yall
69
posted on
09/16/2003 3:46:03 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
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To: flicker
Al Gore has repaid Hammer by looking after Occidental Petroleum, Hammer's creation, and its present Chairman, Ray Irani. On Irani, check his sleepovers in the Clinton White House and donations to Democrats.
70
posted on
09/16/2003 3:46:03 PM PDT
by
gaspar
To: .cnI redruM
BUMP!
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posted on
09/16/2003 4:03:29 PM PDT
by
jmstein7
To: .cnI redruM
This book should be required reading for all Freepers. I've read it and it's great. It gives you new appreciation for Reagan and new disdain for Carter.
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posted on
09/16/2003 4:53:07 PM PDT
by
votelife
(Free Bill Pryor)
To: chesley
I used to like Carter too (he did call Clinton's last days "a disgrace") but he has done so many things to undermine the US, his country, that I feel free in calling his activities shockingly treasonous.
73
posted on
09/16/2003 5:19:00 PM PDT
by
votelife
(Free Bill Pryor)
To: Celtjew Libertarian
re your post 55, it probably WAS worth it. Assuming you're not an Alan Keyes, Bush is awful type, RR helped usher in the Bush II era...
74
posted on
09/16/2003 5:21:43 PM PDT
by
votelife
(Free Bill Pryor)
To: CO_dreamer
Actually Carter lost the Jewish vote, barely beating Reagan. Anderson had about 15%.
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posted on
09/16/2003 6:07:30 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.")
To: gaspar
The man is really sickening. I wonder what it is that draws southern governors to sell their souls ?
To: bimbo
Wonder if he'd carry Georgia today ?
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I doubt Carter is more popular than Bush in GA
78
posted on
09/16/2003 6:33:29 PM PDT
by
votelife
(Free Bill Pryor)
To: votelife
Oh Lord, forgive me of my past sins! I voted for Jimmy Carter not once but twice, believing that he was an honorable man and that perhaps Reagan would get us all nuked. Thank You for your provision, sending us Reagan who delivered us from the deadly Communism which mocks and despises You. Deliver us and our country from the like-minded to Carter, the mean-spirited, haters of liberty, lovers of perversion and evil. Amen
79
posted on
09/16/2003 6:50:16 PM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(We're through being cool (you can say that again, Dad))
To: .cnI redruM
I can't believe I voted for this piece of crap.
80
posted on
09/16/2003 6:52:46 PM PDT
by
Jorge
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