Almost happened again on the OBL raid. Had there been better luck for Carter on the Iranian hostage rescue mission, he would have had a much better chance at re-election I think.
Thanks for that link. I have a distant memory of that, sort of like Nixon sabotaging the Paris peace talks with the South Vietnamese to have a cease-fire declared. Johnson was considering charging Nixon with treason he was so angry.
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Date: 2014-05-18 06:48 pm (UTC)Weird. . . .