Misconceptions take especially strong hold where U.S. presidents are concerned: sometimes to their advantage, sometimes not.
PLAINS, Ga. — Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme.That George Washington story about the cherry tree? Apocryphal. And his teeth weren't actually made of wood. There's no evidence that William Howard Taft ever got stuck in a bathtub.
THE DETAILS: Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. They would hold 52 U.S. citizens for 444 days. From the outset, Carter resolved not to start a shooting war in response. He authorized a rescue mission in the spring of 1980, but mechanical problems forced the helicopter operation to abort and one crashed, killing eight servicemen.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Carter biographer Jonathan Alter details that Martin Luther King Jr. befriended Koinonia's white founder, Clarence Jordan, during the civil rights movement. But the non-profit organization was accused in Georgia courts of being a communist front, and King's inner circle considered it radical. Jordan was beaten on the streets of Americus, a short distance from Plains.
He was a good-government policy wonk who spent considerable political capital reorganizing government in Atlanta and then Washington. He pushed windfall taxes on big oil but frustrated fellow Democrats on spending priorities and added little to the national debt compared to all his successors . The deregulatory era often associated with Reagan actually began with Carter loosening regulations on airlines, trains and trucking.
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