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In reply to the discussion: Hours after grandson’s death, Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school [View all]No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)29. Walter Cronkite, most respected newsman at the time, drove home
the fact that American hostages were still being held every evening, as he closed his newscasts with:
"100th ( or the appropriate daily count} day Americans are being held hostage " etc.
The daily drumbeat was devastating to Carter's election plans.
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I agree. One of the things I really like about him is that he never stops learning and evolving.
MADem
Dec 2015
#2
Absolutely.... He is deserving of so much more in terms of respect and acknowledgement for all he
hlthe2b
Dec 2015
#14
One of Jimmy Carter's young relatives is the one who broke the story of the Romney 47% remark . . .
brush
Dec 2015
#46
No, it was James--he introduced the filmer, a bartender, to David Corn, who fired up the media.
MADem
Dec 2015
#47
I guess the fact that everyone in DC hated the fact that a "no-name governor for GA" was elected.
LiberalArkie
Dec 2015
#13
Beginning with day 50 of the hostages' captivity, Walter Cronkite nightly ended his broadcast with
No Vested Interest
Dec 2015
#41
Ahhh... the simplicity of a mind allowing one merely the house and senate as obstacles
LanternWaste
Dec 2015
#50
Jimmy Carter is a fine christian man, he left the SBC because of hate in the church.
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#28
In the Jewish tradition, the prayer said after a death is the Mourner's Kaddish
Fortinbras Armstrong
Dec 2015
#57