Ronald Reagan: Hero? or Villain?

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If the American Embassy hostages had been released in October, 1980, this would have given Jimmy Carter a greater chance of winning re-election. Officials in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, including future CIA Director, William Casey, made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election. In return, the United States arranged for Israel to ship weapons to Iran.

Reagan inherited the train wreck that Jimmy Carter made. During the Carter years the U.S. was suffering from stagflation.

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http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr ... -clips.htm

If the American Embassy hostages had been released in October, 1980, this would have given Jimmy Carter a greater chance of winning re-election. Officials in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, including future CIA Director, William Casey, made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election. In return, the United States arranged for Israel to ship weapons to Iran.

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ruveyn

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ruveyn

Just read the links I provided. Ronald Reagan and his cronies were consumed with evil.

During the Vietnam War, the Republican challenger Richard Nixon feared a last-minute deal to end US involvement in the Vietnam war by President Lyndon Johnson, which would earn incumbent Vice-President Hubert Humphrey enough votes to win election as President of the United States in the 1968 Presidential election. After President Johnson announced a halt of the bombing of North Vietnam on October 30, 1968, Humphrey surged ahead of Nixon in the polls where days before they had been in a dead heat. Immediately attention was focused to the Paris negotiations where Nixon campaign foreign policy advisor Henry Kissinger was stationed.

In her autobiography, Anna Chennault directly addressed the allegation of an October Surprise when North Vietnam negotiators after speaking with ranking Nixon campaign officials (headed by Kissinger) walked away from the American delegation under President Johnson after being offered a better deal if negotiations began after the election. In a phone conversation between President Johnson and Minority Leader Senator Everett Dirksen, Johnson singled out the Nixon campaign as the primary reason why negotiations had stalled and called him and his party "traitors". The Johnson administration never disclosed this change in fortunes or why the walkout occurred since it might hang a cloud of illegitimacy between both candidates should either one win over the other.

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I'm curious. If you had enough evidence for you to consider it proof - however much that might be - would it change your opinion of him?

Another book on the subject: October Surprise by Gary Sick.

http://www.amazon.com/October-Surprise- ... 0812920872

This wasn't the first time that the Republican Party, when out of power and seeking election, had negotiated bad deals for America to improve its election chances.



Of course, the war dragged on for several more years, and Tricky Dicky put forward the seductive slogan "Peace with Honor."

And, what did Henry Kissinger finally announce, 12 days before Tricky Dicky's re-election? "Peace is at hand!"

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