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But apparently he decided to help himself year after year to basically the farm's 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 going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasn't a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not...

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 wasn't 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 president's beloved younger brother. and the republicans in congress convinced the justice department to spend six months and a ton of money trying to turn that into something, but that was how it ended. that was peanutgate, th...

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 president's personal assets and personal finances during his time running for the presidency and being the president. that's as close to a scandal as we have ever come. and that was a pipsqueak's worth of presidential assets. it wasn't really a blind tru. and that's the scale with which this has been chased and litigated before. but if you take six months, you could make six months of scandal and a special prosecut...

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 didn't 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 family's peanut business. >> peanutgate, investigate the carter family's peanut business. scandal. this was 1979. peanutgate had a perfect name. in the end, though, substantively it did not exactly distinguish itself as a sca...

Restrained themselves, they didn't 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 family's peanut business. >> peanutgate, investigate the carter family's 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 later. >> good evening. jimmy carter was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the handling of funds...