ronald reagan. such accomplishments as an energy policy or separate education department, the deregulation of business or the reorganization of the government, all those could be undone by ronald reagan. i was one of the last people in the white house when the administration changed. and i had gone out to andrews air force base with a lot of other people to go and say goodbye to president carter. and it was at that moment that the hostages were released to president reagan. there were tears in the eyes of mr. carter s aides when the presidential jet went out of its way to fly over the white house one last time. in plains, mr. carter made his first public statement since the freeing of the hostages. just a few moments ago on air force one before we landed, i had received word officially for the first time that the aircraft carrying the 52 american hostages had cleared iranian air
going to get a deal, he s going to get a camp david accords between the biggest army in the middle east, egypt, and the israelis. president carter really used his knowledge of the subject and his willingness to talk to people in a very direct way to get a result. he was very good i think about being able to put himself into other people s shoes. to understand what they needed. the odds of pulling off this peace treaty between sadat and begin was slight. and a lot of his international advisers were saying don t this. and carter had this moment in time that he knew he had a shot at it so he did. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, the president of the arab republic of egypt, and the prime minister of israel. [ applause ]
the songs that any given 10 or 20-year period will more honestly or accurately reflected what happened. well i think the world changed since way back then and it s so good to be back home again not much left but the floor no one lives here will anymore except the memories of a coal miner s daughter [ applause ] carter had a lot of entertaining with his music friends he had. loretta lynn, conway twitty, tom t. hall. all the greats of that era performed in the east room of the white house to honor jimmy carter.
noting, given what some of the atmosphere has been on that reasonable. recently. the chinese investor came. like president carter would always do, is there anything i can do for you? anything you want? and the ambassador said yes, i would like to go to nashville. the president asked me to put that trip together. and it was just a magnificent weekend. because nashville rolled out the red carpet at jimmy carter s request for this first people s republic of china ambassador. it started with the luncheon of every business leader in the music business, coming to the bmi conference room. that lunch ended with barbara man dorell as the doors opened, standing there with her combo singing, sleeping single in a double bed, as the interim interpreter was telling the ambassador what he was singing,
with his foreign policy. and he had difficulty implementing it around the world. but at least he was trying. he sent me to africa with a note. a torn piece of paper. i want you to ask african leaders what they expect from this administration and how we can help them. that s revolutionary. with the coming of the new year, a new and controversial chapter in america s relationship with asia. here in washington this morning, the flag of the people s republic of china raised for the first time at what s now the chinese embassy. that ceremony one of several marking the opening of formal ties and the end of formal relations with taiwan. in terms of opening up to china, president carter followed through on what had been an opening by a republican president. and i find the bipartisanship of that is something that is worth