Tag Archives: Jimmy Carter

CBS News: Election Night Coverage 1980: President Jimmy Carter’s Concession Speech

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  President Jimmy Carter stepping up to the plate and taking his loss to Ronald Reagan like a man. Definitely one of the earliest concession speeches at least at the presidential level. The sun might of still been … Continue reading →

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ABC News Special Report: American Hostages Day 444

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The final insult from Iran to President Jimmy Carter was Iran not officially releasing the American hostages in Iran until the second or minute that Jimmy Carter was no longer President of the United States. And then … Continue reading →

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ABC News: Special Report: Iranian Hostage Crisis (12/03/1979)

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The Shah of Iran was a major reason for why the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis came about in the first place. Because the Shah was a dictator and at times a brutal dictator even though he was … Continue reading →

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ABC News: Special Report: Iranian Hostage Crisis (11/11/1979)

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat The 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis was the final nail in the coffin of a very horrible year for America and President Jimmy Carter. With all the bad economic news with the high cost of living due to … Continue reading →

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CBS News: President Jimmy Carter on Hostage Crisis on Face The Nation (1980)

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat I give President Jimmy Carter a lot of credit for all the time and effort that he put into seeing that the American hostages in Iran were brought home. Which includes the rescue attempt in the spring … Continue reading →

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CBS News: John Anderson vs Ronald Reagan: 1980 Presidential Debate

Posted on July 30, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:CBS News– U.S. Representative John Anderson (Republican, Illinois) 1980 Independent presidential candidate. Source:The New Democrat “In 1980, the League of Women Voters invited independent John Anderson to their first presidential debate, and President Carter refused to attend. Ronald Reagan showed … Continue reading →

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Andrew Sullivan: Why Rand Paul Matters

Posted on May 6, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  For me, though, these clips make Paul’s candidacy more appealing, not less. What the GOP needs is an honest, stringent account of how it has ended up where it is – a party that has piled on … Continue reading →

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Speech at the White House (12/17/79)

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat This speech was given about three weeks after the Iranian hostage crisis in which Iranian Islamists took fifty Americans, working at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, hostage in November of 1979.  This was Thatcher’s first visit to … Continue reading →

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Crash Course: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter: The Economic Malaise of the 1970s

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Derik Schneider

.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyN5LPHEQ_0 The Great Deflation of the 1970s as it is more commonly known. Really lasted that entire decade with the economy taking a big hit in 1973 thanks to the energy crisis of that year. Because of the 1973 … Continue reading →

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Brandon Hansen: Take a Trip Back to The 1970s

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Ederik Schneider

. Source:Real Life Journal A very divisive decade politically the 1970s, but a decade with a lot of great movies, sports, music and the designer jeans revolution of the late 1970s. Also the decade where I was born and started … Continue reading →

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