thought hospice was only a mo or 2,but...he screwed up everything he did. giving the canal,essentially to china,will likely yet bite us in the ass. i blame him for much of our current problems in the ME. not all of them Balfour,cia installing the shaw,brits drawing the lines post ww1 and more as well. but the embassy takeover was really an overt act of war. should have been responded to as such. 1 of maybe 3 incidents in the 20th cent we should have used overwhelming,violent military power. ww1,ww2,VN are not on that list. would have had to be nice to the russians in a hot line talk with Brezhnev and warn them what was gonna happen had nothing to do with them. maybe buy 'em off with some land or such. they would have understood as they deal with shit the same way. jerking the russ off over Afghanistan was a stupid putz move that we managed to repeat later with same result. he was horrible in WH but has a lot of company.