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What are you talking about? It was literally the main news item for the second half of his term. Every evening Walter Cronkite began his broadcast with "day x
by starkd 4y ago
What are you talking about? It was literally the main news item for the second half of his term. Every evening Walter Cronkite began his broadcast with "day xxx of the hostage crisis". The administration was consumed by it.
It also didn't help that Carter ordered a military rescue option that ended in disaster. The Iranians shot down our helicopter.
- blululu 4y agoTo clarify: it was the hostages that upset people - not the revolution. The revolution led to the hostages but it wasn't a big news item on its own. Walter Cronkite focused on day four hundred and something of the hostage crisis. The revolution itself did not get nearly as much attention. None of the cold war era revolutions that went for or against American foreign interests were that big of issues in American Electoral politics. Eisenhower lost Cuba, Ford lost Angola, Reagan lost half of Latin America, but the one we remember is is the one with the hostages.
- starkd 4y agoGood point. Although the Iran revolution was slightly more in the news with the drama about the shah of Iran. He was ill with cancer. Carter would not allow him into US for treatment, so he had to go to Mexico. I think he eventually got into US though, because Mexico could not care for him. The shah of Iran had quite a following among many. He sort of the royal family of the middle east.