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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...

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...

That was peanutgate, that was the big scandal. and that, in the modern era, is the closest we have ever come as a country to a presidential scandal involving the dispensation of the presidents personal assets and personal finances during his time running for the presidency and being the president. thats as close to a scandal as we have ever come. and that was a pipsqueaks worth of presidential assets. it wasnt really a blind tru. and thats the scale with which this has been chased and litigated ...

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...

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 a perfect name. in the end, though, substantively it did not exactly distinguish itself as a scandal. this was six months ...

My own hands even before billy came home from the marine corps. but i dont have any regrets about it. but i dont want any decision that i make as president to have any effect on my own income. the trust will try to do the best they can and take care of my remaining family here. my mother and billy too much. >> the trust will take care not to disrupt my family here, my mother and billy. ah, billy. the reason republicans in congress got so excited for the prospects of peanutgate is that even thoug...

My own hands even before billy came home from the marine corps. but i dont have any regrets about it. but i dont want any decision that i make as president to have any effect on my own income. the trust will try to do the best they can and take care of my remaining family here. my mother and billy too much. >> the trust will take care not to disrupt my family here, my mother and billy. ah, billy. the reason republicans in congress got so excited for the prospects of peanutgate is that even thoug...

Ah, billy. the reason republicans in congress got so excited for the prospects of peanutgate is that even though president jimmy carter had to get out of the business of peanut farming, had to hand everything over to a trustee, his mom and his little brother billy still lived there. and with billy, they were really hoping that where there was smoke, there was fire. because this was billy. >> billy carters brother is likely to get some dams, roads and postage stamps named after him. as for billy,...

Couple they want to do things very secretly, the palace not commenting. this will not be the first. we have dubbed it peanutgate. >> reporter: back to the apartment. william knows this palace well as its where he grew up up with prince charles and his mother, princess diana. yes, that is him as a wee royal. >> reporter: william thought it was too crowded with memories. kate told a friend that they was a little too creepy. the idea of moving back into the home where her husband grew up. i think t...