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But apparently he decided to help himself year after year to basically the farms bottom l e line. rerepeatedly took the retained earnings from the farm, basically took money out of the business year after year until it ultimately attracted the attention of republicans in congress who persuaded the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the peanut farm to investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money g...

The warehouse into the campaign pf eve . every nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse and no funds were -- >> every nickel and every peanut. they traced every single goober. republicans in 1979 spent six months and they hired a special prosecutor. they went out of their way to make sure it was a republican special prosecutor who they hired at the department of justice to just tear everything apart, go up and down through every peanut shell to try to find something...

Investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasnt a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not a model employee of the peanut warehouse. but that was -- i mean, that was not exactly a scandal at that point given what everybody had come to learn about the presidents beloved younger brother. and the republicans in congress convinced the justice department to spend six months and a t...

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It. so even though jimmy carter hated to give up his peanut farm and this little business hed built up for himself, you just have to do that stuff when you become president. >> governor, a part of your life for so long, how do you feel about divesting yourself of it? >> well, it was a hard decision for me to make and this is something that ive had to face. ive literally given up my own method of making a living here in the plain. a lot of this stuff i built with my own hands even before billy ca...

Whatsoever was discovered that any moneys were diverted from the warehouse into the campaign. every nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse and no funds were -- >> every nickel and every peanut. they traced every single goober. republicans in 1979 spent six months and they hired a special prosecutor. they went out of their way to make sure it was a republican special prosecutor who they hired at the department of justice to just tear everything apart, go up and dow...

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Decision making by the presidency. the next person who got elected was jimmy carter. and all he had was his peanut farm home in georgia. and honestly, he hated to give that up because he built that peanut farm with his own hands. but, of course, this was a time of acute ethical focus in the country after nixon and watergate, right, the orange nat watergate and all the rest of it. so even though jimmy carter hated to give up his peanut farm and this little business hed built up for himself, you j...

But what it actually went by at the time in all seriousness because it was supposed to be a very, very serious thing, they restrained themselves, they didnt call it goobergate. they called it peanutgate. very seriously. oh, my god, did they want it to be a big deal. >> the republicans in congress have been calling loudly for a special prosecutor to investigate the carter familys peanut business. >> peanutgate, investigate the carter familys peanut business. scandal. this was 1979. peanutgate had...