yup. you can transfer your service online in about a minute. you can do that? yeah. and with two-hour service appointment windows, it s all on your schedule. awesome. so while moving may still come with its share of headaches. no kidding. we re doing all we can to make moving simple, easy, awesome. go to xfinity.com/moving to get started. 2:00 in the morning, four boys, lisa harris s little brother billy, her then boyfriend brian, and two friends, david and scott, all drive to john hill s house. the two girls, lisa and
but apparently he decided to help himself year after year to basically the farm s bottom l e line. rerepeatedly took the retained earnings from the farm, basically took money out of the business year after year until it ultimately attracted the attention of republicans in congress who persuaded the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the peanut farm to investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasn t a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not a model employee of the peanut warehouse. but that was i mean, that was not exactly a scandal at that point given what everybody had come to learn about the president s beloved younger brother. and the republicans in congress convinced the justice department to spend six months and a ton of money trying to turn that into something, but that was how it ended. that was peanutgate, that was
investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasn t a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not a model employee of the peanut warehouse. but that was i mean, that was not exactly a scandal at that point given what everybody had come to learn about the president s beloved younger brother. and the republicans in congress convinced the justice department to spend six months and a ton of money trying to turn that into something, but that was how it ended. that was peanutgate, that was the big scandal. and that, in the modern era, is the closest we have ever come as a country to a presidential scandal involving the dispensation of the president s personal assets and personal finances during his time running for the presidency and being the president. that s as close to a scandal as we have ever come. and that was a pipsqueak s worth of presidential assets.
it. so even though jimmy carter hated to give up his peanut farm and this little business he d built up for himself, you just have to do that stuff when you become president. governor, a part of your life for so long, how do you feel about divesting yourself of it? well, it was a hard decision for me to make and this is something that i ve had to face. i ve literally given up my own method of making a living here in the plain. a lot of this stuff i built with my own hands even before billy came home from the marine corps. but i don t have any regrets about it. but i don t want any decision that i make as president to have any effect on my own income. the trust will try to do the best they can and take care of my remaining family here. my mother and billy too much. the trust will take care not to disrupt my family here, my mother and billy.
his car, chose a can of beer and popped the cap. jimmy carter seemed to shudder, end quote. jimmy carter and his younger brother billy could not have been more different. but president carter absolutely loved him. and he did put his peanut farm and his peanut warehouse, this business that he had built, he put it into a blind trust when he became president because that s the sort of thing a president has to do even if they do not have considerable assets. and he handed over his own asset, his own stake to a trustee who assumed complete responsibility so that he would have no further role whatsoever. but part of the arrangement was that the trustee would keep on the existing employees at the peanut farm and the warehouse including billy who worked at the warehouse. and the arrangement was a little rocky. billy at one point tried to buy the peanut farm and the warehouse in 1977. the trustee said no, no, you can t buy it.