Yes I assumed this was common knowledge, but it’s always nice to see it back in the news to remind people how bonkers that situation was, and how thoroughly corrupt the Reagan folks were.
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Ok. I won’t retell the story about the time Jimmy Carter was part of the US team tackling the nuclear reactor crisis in Chalk River Ontario in 1953 as that is even a better known old story.
I love that story. Honestly we didn’t deserve him as president. I can’t imagine someone that wholesome and badass even getting involved in politics these days.
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I just assumed by the way the NY Times framed the story that it contained new revelations. I had not heard the story myself but that is not surprising since my knowledge of American history is shallower than that of the Americans on this forum. However it did remind me of Nixon’s corruptness with respect to the Paris peace talks.
Republicans gonna Republican.
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I saw it in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. 
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