CSPAN2 Book TV November 13, 2010
confident in septembers' that they have a good race on their hands and i don't think it is just because they're not sensing what is going on. i don't think the reagan landslide was as clear and inevitable as it later and looks to be. had carter been able to broker the agreement a month earlier, i think it could have had a big impact. this was the major foreign policy challenge of the day and carter had had them released early on, it could have had an impact. after the soviet invasion of afghanistan carter's polls shoot up instantly when he takes a very aggressive response to the sovi...
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