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popsdenver

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36. Reagan/Bush

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #32)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 04:18 AM

3 hrs ago

arranged a deal.........Iran was going to return U.S. Hostages, and HW made contact with them and told them that they would get a much better deal, if they waited until Reagan was in office, rather than Carter.......to make Carter look weak....
And it worked................
That may have been the first "October Surprise" the Republicans had ever pulled.......

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