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...hostage crisis is the centerpiece of TIME'S concluding excerpt from Keeping Faith, Carter's account of his four years as President. Carter describes the high expectations and dashed hopes that punctuated the long-running drama. He tells how he tried to deal with the Ayatullah Khomeini as if he were "a rational person, "even though, Carter writes, he "was acting insanely." Carter provides a Commander in Chiefs view of the U.S. military rescue effort that ended with the abandonment of flaming aircraft and eight American bodies in an Iranian desert. He vividly describes the all-night negotiating...
This week's excerpt is the first of two that TIME will present from the book that, the author notes in his preface, "is my own work, typed by me at home on my trusty word processor. " To produce it, he condensed some 5,000 pages of recollections he had dictated daily while serving in the Oval Office. In Part 1, Carter not only reviews the tumultuous days at Camp David but also comments, in an exclusive four-hour interview with TIME, on current Middle East relations and on the policies, foreign and domestic, of his successor, whom he does...
...listened to every proposal, no matter how preposterous, including dropping an atomic bomb on Tehran," writes Jimmy Carter of his most frustrating experience as President: trying to free the American hostages from Iran. In the concluding TIME excerpt from Keeping Faith, Carter tells of the fallen Shah's fateful visit to the U.S., the seizure of the Americans on a day "I will never forget," the tragic failure of the rescue mission in the desert and the 444-day ordeal that ended in freedom for the hostages. Carter also tells of those achievements for which he expects historians to give...
...Excerpt from a 1977 press conference with Carson: Q. What would you like your epitaph to be? A. I'll be right back. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Peter Ainslie/New York and Russell Leavitt/ Los Angeles