the people of that country. what do you think the shah of iran is in egypt, his country are deliriously row joycing at his departure and all around the world trying to come to grips were i the fall of the man known as the king to king. old chan of death to the shah was replaced by a new one, death to carter. jimmy carter knows we want freedom and we don t want his human rights anymore. obviously the source of energy for the 1970s was a core question, iranian revolution is drying up energy supply, we re literally running out of gas. your attention, employees, there s been a state of emergency declared. in a nuclear power plant near harrisburg, pennsylvania, the cooling system broke down this morning, some radio active steam escaped into the air, radiation passed through the forefoot
look at the living quarters for the fortunate. president carter knew he had four years to do things that he thought were important, fix the economy, try to bring some peace to the middle east, fix energy and some other things. we will have available for public scrutiny and for congressional action by april 20th a comprehensive long range energy policy. the winner of 1977 is one of the worst that the country had experienced and this comes at a time the economy is still doing poorly. severe weather led to a serious shortage of natural gas federal power commissioned estimates at least 200,000 layoffs due to industrial gas curtailments so far. congress will consider this week emergency gas legislation. good evening, president carter is about to speak to the nation from the white house on the subject of energy i want to have an unpleasant
mr. president, the circumstances of the pardon which you issued the secrecy with which it was issued made people question whether or not, in fact, it was a deal. mrs. i repeat if we had an deem, trial conviction the attention of the congress and the american people would have been diverted from the problems that we have to solve. ford now looks very smart in history for issuing the pardon. it did not look that great at the time. he took a beating for it. if we had a trial and nixon, the country would have been stopped. you got to remember, presidents are there to governor and we didn t have much governing. wherever you look across the united states, plants are closing, industries slowing down, businesses failing, at least 6 million people out of work and unemployment is had the
aimless. he s a good actor but he also is a foremidible challenger. ronald reagan was challenging a sitting president in his own party, relatively conservative president and calling him a liberal sell-out in the texas primary reagan wiped out the president in stunning victory. in august of 1974, of this country had difficult and foremidible obstacles ahead of us, we went in the right direction, young man and for those of you this was a period of time right in the wake of watergate, americans were very, very suspicious about government and about people who spent too much time in washington, dc. so jimmy card carter could run as someone called himself an outsider, wasn t tainted boy wanted. i recall running for president it was a major headline that said jimmy carter
this is cnn. the camp david accord was cart s crowning achievement but shortly thereafter diminished boy the crisis with iran. the rebel priest exiled in paris called on supporters to oppose the shah called for the building of islamic state not dependant on the west i don t think united states as a secular country understood that slam or islam it lasted two and a half millennium. we put the shah in but you re saying keep him in. i think it s a decision by