Another in a long line of firsts for the former president? The first president never to have previously held political office or in the military, the first president to be married three times, the first president to be impeached twice could possibly be the first president in American history to be arrested.
I will believe it when I see it.
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The Republican-oriented North Dakota Supreme Court has kept abortion rights legal in the state.
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The original October Surprise in 1980 has not been "untold." It has been known all these years, but the media tended to pooh-pooh it.
The only difference now is the involvement of John Connally in the sneaky tactic to undermind the Carter presidency.
Mr. Barnes said he had no idea of the purpose of the Middle East trip when Mr. Connally invited him. They traveled to the region on a Gulfstream jet owned by Superior Oil. Only when they sat down with the first Arab leader did Mr. Barnes learn what Mr. Connally was up to, he said.
Mr. Connally said, “‘Look, Ronald Reagan’s going to be elected president and you need to get the word to Iran that they’re going to make a better deal with Reagan than they are Carter,’” Mr. Barnes recalled. “He said, ‘It would be very smart for you to pass the word to the Iranians to wait until after this general election is over.’ And boy, I tell you, I’m sitting there and I heard it and so now it dawns on me, I realize why we’re there.”
Mr. Barnes said that, except for Israel, Mr. Connally repeated the same message at every stop in the region to leaders such as President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt. He thought his friend’s motive was clear. “It became very clear to me that Connally was running for secretary of state or secretary of defense,” Mr. Barnes said. (Mr. Connally was later offered energy secretary but declined.)
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