Walter Shapiro

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@CharlesPPierce @OsitaNwanevu Not defending everything Carter did. (I should mention that, having left the White House in September 1979, no hostages were taken on Shapiro's watch). Where it gets complicated is something like airline deregulation which drastically lowered prices but led to its own horrors. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 1, 2019 Hibernated

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@OsitaNwanevu Just one small way that Carter was different from, say, Clinton or Obama. In response to a recession, Carter presided over the largest public service jobs program since the New Deal. The program (CETA) had its flaws, but it was a real return to old-fashioned liberalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Researched this recently for a Carter piece: Carter's original instincts were to bar the Shah of Iran from entering the country for medical treatment. But people like Kissinger and David Rockefeller successfully lobbied the administration -- and Carter reluctantly relented. — PolitiTweet.org

@MrWalterShapiro @OsitaNwanevu The hostages and the oil shock were shots below the waterline that nobody could have… https://t.co/SRkFlkxBJd

Posted Dec. 1, 2019 Hibernated