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Originally Posted by transplant99
Carter was negotiating LONG before the election was even held.
Reagans guys got a crack at things AFTER the election in November, (some 60 days or so to get it done) so even then that left Carter and his administration over a year to solve the crisis.
Yes, Reagans guys were responsible for it happening, and no it didnt happen in 12 hours. I think that's obvious, yet here we have a poster claiming that it was all Carters doings that led to their release....that simply did not happen.
Re-writing history isn't that easy.
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Maybe Carter wasn't willing to do business with an oppressive theocratic regime the way Reagan was?
The Iranians probably just wanted an autographed copy of
Prisoner of War.