Tag Archives: President Jimmy Carter

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

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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AlterNet: David Bromwich: What Became of the Leader Many Wanted Barack Obama to be

AlterNet: Opinion: David Bromwich: What Became of the Leader Many Wanted Obama to be Source:The New Democrat Whatever happened to that socialist whom so many Americans on the far left supported and organized for and hoped they were getting when … Continue reading

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AlterNet: Robert Reich: Why America Has Forgotten Its Three Biggest Economic Lessons

Source:The New Democrat AlterNet: Opinion: Robert Reich: Why America Has Lost Its Three Biggest Economic Lessons What Robert Reich and others on the further left of me do not understand is that when we had those huge tax rates in … Continue reading

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James Miller Center: 1980 State of The Union: President Carter on Iranian Hostage Crisis

Source:FRS FreeState The Iranian Hostage Crisis, was the final nail in the Carter Presidency. Not so much the day that it happened, but how long it went on. Plus the fact that it was one more big blow that President … Continue reading

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James Miller Center: Video: President Jimmy Carter: Statement on Iran Rescue Mission

James Miller Center: Video: President Jimmy Carter: Statement on Iran Rescue Mission The failed rescue attempt in 1980 during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, was a disaster for several reasons. One, it showed that the greatest superpower in the world was … Continue reading

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Arizona Public Media: America Experience The Presidents: Jimmy Carter The Man From Plains

Source:The Daily Press Had it not have been for 1974 and the Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter doesn’t get elected President of the United States, at least in 1976. He probably runs for reelection for Governor of Georgia in 1974 and … Continue reading

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CNN: Senator Edward Kennedy- ‘The Dream Shall Never Die (1980)’

Source:CNN– U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Democrat, Massachusetts (1962-2009) Source:The Daily Journal  “On the day it was announced that Sen. Edward Kennedy died at age 77, CNN replays a portion of a speech from Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National … Continue reading

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James Miller Center: President Jimmy Carter Report To The Nation on Energy (February 2nd, 1977)

. Source:FRS FreeState President Carter was right to take on energy policy and creating a national energy policy. That would move America off of foreign oil and move us towards energy independence. He understood that America has a surplus of … Continue reading

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Coach Strusky: 39- President Jimmy Carter and the Late 1970s

Source:The Daily Times “From The History Channel Series, “The Presidents”. Copyright held by The History Channel – for educational use only!” From Coach Strusky This might be putting it simplistically, but Jimmy Carter’s presidency and the late 1970s might be able … Continue reading

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