Over to you, mr. President. We face a grave situation in iran. The u. S. Embassy has been seized by iranian students. The american diplomatic staff are now prisoners. 60 american citizens continue to be held as hostages. We are using every available channel to secure their release. There is an ancient principle of diplomatic immunity, which means that embassies are off limits. So we were shocked by it. I couldnt believe it was possible. Americans felt helpless that this had happened. It felt as though the United States was losing its power in the world. The perpetrators are supporters of irans revolutionary leader, ayatollah khomeini. They are outraged by president carters decision to admit their former dictator into the United States. Jimmy carters humanitarian gesture to the shah of iran angered the iranian students. In 1980, the great satan was carter. Not that hes mr. Popular back home. It was a feeling that jimmy carter was a failed president. We had 21 interest rates, 7 inflation, 7 unemployment, 0 growth. You begin to see gas lines forming across the country, which lead to violence. People are shot. People are stabbed. And here you have jimmy carter really trying to juggle all of those things, particularly a moment where the nation just does not have confidence in being america any more. As the election approaches, carter needs his party behind him. Instead, he feels the chill of growing discontent. Jimmy carter spent much of his presidency seeming to reject the culture and values of the Democratic Party. He was a fiscal conservative. That was a problem. Sometimes people would say that if carter had a quarter or half dollar, he would squeeze it until the eagle choked. In particular, the liberal wing of his party feels very deeply that carter has thrown liberalism under the bus. And to begin to turn their attention to other politicians who they feel like really embody the qualities of leadership they want from a president. And the figure people really circled around is ted kennedy. Where as president carter veered to the center, kennedy was this Crystal Clear liberal lion. Kennedy was the kind of guy, if he walked in the room, you knew he was there. Carter, if he walked in the room, you might not notice that he was there till somebody said, president of the United States, and youd say, oh the president of the United States. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Ted kennedy and jimmy carter might as well have been raised on different planets. Jimmy carter at age 6 was running around on a farm in southwest rural georgia. His house didnt have Running Water or electricity. Ted kennedy about the same age is living in a massive mansion in london. His father is the ambassador to the united kingdom, and Teddy Kennedy lacks for nothing. Jimmy carter looks at Teddy Kennedy and sees an entitled play boy. Ted kennedy looks at jimmy carter and sees a hick who is over his head. Today i formally announce i am a candidate for the president of the United States. [ applause ] i was deeply upset. I thought this will divide the party. It threatens the democratic control of the presidency. The Iowa Republican debate. Republican hopefuls are also squaring off. At the first big showpiece of their primary calendar, theres one notable absence. I wish governor reagan was here. Oh, how i wish he was here. Ronald reagan is at home in sunny california. Ronald reagan is the heir apparent in the republican party. Ronald reagan is the man to beat on the republican side. He had been a hollywood actor. He had been the governor of california where he had earned a National Reputation as a new voice in the republican party. Lets get a real leader in the white house. He ran strong in 76 against ford. He was the preemptive nominee. He was the favorite. So the decision was to keep out of the debates and coast to the nomination which they thought they could do. And the six candidates spend 90 minutes pounding on Ronald Reagan. I think he has other ideas about how he wants to run. If indeed hes running, and i think he is. I want to say to governor reagan where ever you are, i hope youre having fun tonight because we are. [ laughter ] by ducking the debate, Ronald Reagan dramatically boost the stock of george bush. We have a 2. 3 trillion economy. It can work. George bush is a world war ii hero of the pacific. He had served as director of the c. I. A. , our envoy to china. But hes not well known on the national scene. We were asterisks in the poll. Nobody knew who he was, nobody. George h. W. Bush ran a terrific campaign, and i can remember that morning of the iowa caucuses, i was on an elevator and theres bush. And he said, hey, pat, ive got the big mo. And he meant the big momentum. Its a shocker to the world, and i mean a shocker to the world, george bush wins the iowa caucuses. Because of what happened in iowa, were going to go all the way to the white house. And he played into these fears, was reagan really up for this . Maybe he wasnt the political heavy weight like people thought. I ran into a reporter in iowa and he told me, pat, hes a straw man. You punch him and straw comes out. How big is the wound to governor reagan . Ronald reagan for president is effectively dead. Where can a healthier heart lead you . For people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. [ dishave you ever wondered [ distant band playing ] or high blood potassium. 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Com i am not going to resume business as usual until our hostages are back here, free and at home. As the hostage crisis passes 100 days, president carters strategy to defeat ted kennedy is not the campaign at all. The president undertook what was called the rose garden strategy. What that meant was he wasnt going to actively campaign while the house tajs were stages were. The president said the hostages are the only issue at stake here. The message was a vote for carter was a vote for the hostages. All of a sudden they rally behind the president. President carter finished with 75 of the vote. Carter has 680, kennedy 385. The rose garden strategy pays off. Carter races to victory in a string of early primaries. But hes not the only one running ahead of his rival. George bush is only 55 and a very young looking, a athleticlooking 55. Ronald reagan is 68 years old. People assumed a man 68 years old was too old to assume the mantle of the president of the United States. Bush is doing jumping jacks and push ups. Lets see reagan come here and do this. Reagan is pissed about this. Reagan wants to steal back the show with a televised debate. Bush is wary. George bush knows right now hes the front runner, so why should he put up with other challengers in the party taking potshots at him . Hoping to sway his rival, reagan proposes a one on one debate and offers to pickup the check. And now bush can just share the stage with the actor Ronald Reagan and show how good he is on his feet. Terms are agreed, but reagan has a trick up his sleeve. Then at the last minute reagan decides instead of the one on one debate, he wants all the republicans who are running to be part of the debate. Ronald reagan wants it opened up to the other challengers under the guise of fairness. But bush was very committed to the idea, he had given his word, and this is the way it ought to be. He challenged me to a one on one. Thats what id like to do. So there is a fight brewing before this debate about who is actually going to be included. A date is scheduled for 7 30. By 8 15 theres still no candidates. Its hot in there. Instamatics are flashing. The tension is just horrific. Finally reagan comes in. Hes followed by all these other candidates. [ cheers and applause ] george bush, he doesnt know what to do. Hes frozen and is looking very much like the second banana in this debate. I asked these gentlemen to come out here to make this a debate including all of the candidates. Reagan starts talking about how important it is to include everybody in the debate. The crowd is on his side, but the debate moderator wants to play by the rules. Would the sound man please turn mr. Reagans mic off for the moment . [ booing ] remember, reagan paid for this debate. Turn that microphone off, please . I paid for this microphone. [ applause ] you see a real flash of passion from reagan. Its clear that whatever else comes out this debate, thats going to be the moment everyone remembers. I paid for this microphone. I am paying for this microphone. I am paying for this microphone. Everybody out there watching on television saw that replayed again and again, and they said the gipper is back. It was for all intents and purposes the end of george h. W. Bushs see ious effort to be the nominee in 1980. And it was a sign that Ronald Reagan was a political maestro. The 100th day, the last american reporter out. The problem on day 100 was basically the same as it was on day one, which is nobody knows what khomeini or the militants will do. Carter is really bogged down unable to solve the hostage crisis. Iranians now are threatening to hold the american hostages forever. Khomeinis statement to, quote, fight against america till death shattered the first real hope in this prolonged crisis. Walter cronkite ended every single nights report, day 103, day 205, day 307 of the hostage crisis. It was like a drip of poison every single day. You start to hear more people criticize the president for being weak on defense, criticizing the president for not having a forceful response. And this gives kennedy a little boost. Jimmy carter wanna be right here. Ted kennedy surges forward, winning the new york and connecticut primaries. The Carter Campaign is incredibly frustrated because they felt like they had kennedy on the mat. No more american hostages and no more jimmy carter but instead of a knockout punch, the boxing match is going to continue to go on and on and on. Carter has suffered a bruise and blow at the hands of his rival. And still, america is relying on its commander in chief to bring the hostages home. There is a decision thats made to try a military operation. Its called operation eagle claw. The mission would take a rescue team into iran where they would pick up the hostages and take them out to safety. The rescue was a courageous thing for carter to do, but everything that could go wrong did go wrong. paul some Wireless Companies want you to spend your tax refund with them. At sprint, were doing things differently we say, keep your refund. You heard that right because now you can get the Samsung Galaxy s10 for zero dollars a month when you switch. Yup, zero dollars a month. Plus, sprints offering a 100 total satisfaction guarantee. While i think their network and savings are great, you dont just have to take my word for it. Try it out and see the savings for yourself. So, what are you waiting for . Switch today. For people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay. Com. On april 24th, 1980, commander in chief jimmy carter launches an audacious operation to rescue the hostages. 10 30 a. M. Eastern standard time, the helicopters entered the iranian air space. The joint chiefs asked for six helicopters. Carter added two more, eight. One helicopter turned back because the warning light showed hydraulic failure. A second had a rotor blade problem. Another hit a sand storm and had to return to the uss nimitz. As carter used to say in the south where im from, as if you were snake bit. Things were always going wrong. They had eight helicopters, needing only six. Who would have assumed that three would go wrong . So at that point they decide theyve got to abandon the operation. But the failures and tragedies didnt end there. As they began to withdraw, a helicopter collides with one of the transport planes and there is an explosion and eight people die. Jimmy carter gets a phone call. His face just sort of goes blank, and he looks crest fallen. It was a horrible blow. I dont think hell ever get over it. To the defenders of those who died and were wounded, i want to express the admiration i feel for the courage of their loved ones. After that, whenever you went over the white house, there was this increasing air of gloom that sort of settled in like a fog. On august 14th, Ronald Reagan arrives at the Republican National convention. Reagan has this really sunny optimism in a moment when the American People are dealing with a real crisis of confidence. I had a dream that jimmy carter asked me why i wanted his job. And i told him i didnt want his job. I want to be president. [ applause ] reagan fended off george bush, one step to his white house dream. Thank you very much. The primary had become quite bitter, quite divisive. The untold secret of reagan bush relationship is reagan didnt much like george bush. But guess who he picks as his running mate . George bush has more Foreign Policy experience than reagan, more moderate than reagan. So picking him made sense. He was competitive. It always came down to the decision that made the most sense in terms of winning. I pledge to you to restore to the federal government the capacity to do the peoples work without dominating their lives. Reagan was all about limited government, lower taxes, strong economy, strong defense. He was a real authentic conservative, and wed come to believe that reagan was the leader of our national movement. Well make America Great again. President carter seems to have the nomination in his grasp. Or so he thinks. Senator kennedy won a lot of the primaries at the end, the big states, california. But we were so far behind in delegates, we couldnt catch up. The delegate advantage was almost 2 to 1, carter over kennedy. Carter invites kennedy to the white house, expecting a white flag of surrender. Kennedy will have none of this. I welcomed the opportunity to tell the president i have every intention of continuing in this campaign as a candidate. Okay. The fact that senator kennedy stayed in the race, it pissed us off. It was, i think, unforgivable. Kennedy makes a last grab for victory by trying to tear up the rule. I come here to seek a free and open democratic convention. The rules of the Democratic Party bound delegates to the candidate for whom they were elected and to install kennedy as the nominee, they would have to change the rules and give people a chance to vote for another alexandcandidate even i were committed to carter. We traveled and met with our delegates and we told them were coming to fight for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. Dont be afraid to stand up for what you believe in. We were going in strong. Carters forces desperately fight to block kennedys lastditch bid for the nomination. I say to you as a democrat who worked for john f. Kennedy, but who is now a carter delegate, that we dont change the rules after the game has been played. It is basically a minutebyminute, hourbyhour trench fight for the carter forces. Trying to make sure not one delegate desserts them. One delegate can lead to a trickle can lead to a flood. We set up a pretty sophisticated Communications Operation with the delegates. I remember one of my assistants saying we are going to enclose all the wires to the phone in copper tubing. I said why are we going to do that . Isnt it going to cost a lot of money . He said if we dont, somebody is going to cut the wires. There is reason to be paranoid. Ted kennedy has some heavy weight supporters. Jane byrne, the mayor of chicago, flew in with a rough bunch, and they kind of parachuted into the convention and went out on the Convention Floor and started trying to button hole carter delegates to change their votes. Suddenly a brawl erupts because there was great hostility between the kennedy and carter forces. And it was just complete mayhem. A wounded veteran said to us, i havent seen such sweat and anger since world war ii. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. 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