The oldest and wisest candidate took the podium, and again ignored the national moratorium on politicizing the hostage crisis, claiming that the Iranian revolution was Jimmy Carter’s fault for not having “encouraged the shah to separate some of the more incendiary leaders from their followers.” Then he ignored Richard Allen’s advice, averring that “the Soviet Union has never strayed one inch from its determination to one day have the Marxian dream of a one-world Communist state.” And he insulted the president for his collapse in the road race in September: “If I were a betting man, I’d bet
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