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In reply to the discussion: The Guardian: 'Decades ahead of his time': history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter [View all]Ford_Prefect
(7,886 posts)and the Oil, Gas industries and MIC who worked so hard and spent so many millions to undermine him.
If you look at the congressional record there were solid establishment Dems in Congress and the Senate who voted against his plans courtesy of the thousands of campaign dollars blandished upon them by their patrons listed above. The excuse was always that he was "weak". I found it fascinating reading to look back at the names of those who did so.
Arms for Hostages was the closer to that deal. We only heard small parts of it in the Iran-Contra hearings.
Sadly the MSM at the time liked the idea of false equivalency between conservative and "liberal" views and often left context on the floor of the editing room rather than explore the darker questions.