Whether you are thinking about a sunny vacation retreat to escape the cold or just cozying into the sofa next to the fireplace, the indispensable partner for biding your time is Ken Khachigian’s memoir: “Behind Closed Doors – In the Room with Reagan and Nixon.”
Nixon (after he left office) spoke about the Carter debacle of facilitating the overthrow of the Shah & bringing in the ayatollah. Stating he would have handled it differently that the “ shah was out of line” that the US should have removed him, let him leave with dignity & put in an individual acceptable to the religious faction in the country. That the Iran problem was entirely Carters responsibility.
How did this man’s influence with Reagan play with or against the influence of speech writer Peggy Noonan?
Nixon (after he left office) spoke about the Carter debacle of facilitating the overthrow of the Shah & bringing in the ayatollah. Stating he would have handled it differently that the “ shah was out of line” that the US should have removed him, let him leave with dignity & put in an individual acceptable to the religious faction in the country. That the Iran problem was entirely Carters responsibility.
Nixon later spoke