Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, Carter told them that "the honor of the country comes first, before the lives of the hostages." Johnston reported that Carter then warned darkly: "Simply by releasing the hostages the slate is not wiped clean." Some participants interpreted this as a threat of military...
The result was one of Carter's best performances. His unsmiling face looked pale without the makeup he usually wears before TV cameras, his eyelids sagged with fatigue and his hands gripped the lectern tightly. But he spoke in determined and sometimes angry tones, projecting with considerable success the sense...
At this press conference, Career replied to Khomeini's call for a holy war against the U.S. by insisting that the American quarrel was not with Islam but with the "misguided actions of a few people in Iran." For safety's sake, however, the U.S. ordered that nonessential embassy personnel...
All week, Washington was awash in speculation that the President would soon take military action against Iran. But U.S. policymakers insisted that the rumors were untrue. General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly counseled caution; so, too, did the normally hawkish Brzezinski. Said a high Administration...
The truth about the Shah is far more complex. He was indeed a staunch U.S. ally, restored to his throne by a CIA-organized military coup after a six-day exile in 1953. Yet he damaged the U.S. economy by leading a quadrupling of world oil prices in 1973-74...