those are the words of assistant us secretary of war, john mccoy, about genocide, in response to please from the world jewish congress and the war refugee board. because, well, you need bonds to liberate people apparently, unless you're the soviet red army, in which case you just walk right into the cam as kind of a side quests already to liberating berlin from nazis. no bonds needed. meanwhile, the u. s. is about 5 miles away and more interested in destroying german industry. bombing b, i g far been synthetic oil and rubber plant which ultimately became basis and bear under subsequent western occupation in germany. and still today is being crushed under us. lead anti russian sanctions impacting production costs. so you can say the priorities for washington don't seem to have changed that much in a years old habits die hard, they're still targeting german industry. washington was apparently more interested in neutralizing that threat than this one. but if i do a younger, a german woman passed by and we were led into another barrett called revised air and it was labeled with the red cros

there was public pressure by henry kissinger and david rock fell and john j. mccoyaying you have to do this. he could have gotten the same medical treatment in mexico. he could have gotten it in canada. it didn't have to be in the united states and carter took one other precaution. he asked the prime minister of iran, appointed by khomeini and the foreign minister, will you do the same thing you did in february of 1979 when there was an initial effort to take over the u.s. embassy and they repulsed it with iranian police and they said we'll do the best we can. well, in end, they didn't and khomeini allowed the hos stages to be taken to help his own political pace. but carter was the last holdout. it was a brutal debate and every instinct he had was no, i can't do this but he knew if that were the case, he'd be blamed by the republicans and rockefeller and kissinger and his own administration for turning his back on an ally. peter: those 444 days or so, what was it like to be in the white house with the iran hos taj -- stuart: those were the most painful days i have