that other historians will ever feel that - or other people that would feel that way.
Well, I certainly do, I’ll tell ya, I was mortified the whole time that they were captive, you know, and it’s like that’s all anybody was talk- ing about, and when he got them home I thought, “Well now, now that’s a Presi- dent, right there.” You know. Well, let me try this out on you. I was listening to a radio call in show, one of the afternoon shows, and sometimes in the af- ternoons, you know which way they are lean- ing and which way they go and this man, his in- clination was that President Reagan or Ronald Reagan had been responsible for those hostages coming home. If you read my book, it tells exactly what happened. The Aya- tollah Khomeini, by the time the elections came around, you know, he’d already had his revolution. He already had his constitution in Iran. He was already leading that country, he had no use for those hostages but he didn’t know how to save face and release them. Then he had fifty-two Americans that every- body in the world was looking at, so how was he going to deal withy them? He couldn’t take ‘em out and shoot ‘em, but he did not want to deal with our country. And so, you know, Jimmy Carter set the avenues and the vehi- cles through his negotiations with other coun- tries so that Iran and this radical country could deal with them. If you read the book ex- actly at ten o’clock in the morning during the inaugural activities, even during that night, they started the money moving back and forth. Those assets that Jimmy Carter had frozen on November - in the 1980s, those as-
sets came into play and that’s what the Irani- ans wanted. They wanted their money. And so those assets came into play so we had some- thing then, to negotiate with. They could ne- gotiate through another country and so, you know, that was not a day’s work. That was months and months of plans and work through diplomatic avenues to put that plan into place and that’s just boring to most people, you know? She laughs.
I guess. The truth is not alweays that in- teresting. Just watch the cable news. So anyway, read it in my, you’ll find out those minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour, you’ll see
it. I don’t know if you’ve gotten to that part or not.
Yeah, I read the whole book and wrote a review on it. I loved it. (Review last issue -Ed.) Many of our magazine read- ers said that they’ll go out and get the book. Good for you. Thank you.
After he was President, Jimmy Carter did a lot of great things, too. It was amazing. People don’t realize how much he’s done since then besides writing a lot of really good books. (Laughing) He’s written a lot of book, hasn’t he”
Oh yeah I’ve read several. He’s written more than Stephen King.(Laughs) I believe his book that most people liked the most was An Hour before Daylight.
Right, right.
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