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The Reagan-Carter election is the first one I vaguely remember as a kid, and to have the news of the freed hostages get announced at the inauguration seemed so convenient even for a politically uninformed kid. Yet I heard so much of "see, he got elected and got them free!" NO, Carter did the work, dumbasses. At the cost of his reelection.
It was rumored that the same violation of the Logan act occurred with Reagan
Rumoured? Iran-Contra was well publicised and accepted as fact.
What's being discussed for Reagan is the " October Surprise" (not Iran-Contra, a different scandal).
Yeah, my bad,I thought they were linked (in the sense that the weapons from Iran Contra were promised in exchange for the hostages), but I guess they were seperate.