H.W. Brands on Ben Barnes's "Revelation" about the Iran Hostage Crisis

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H.W. Brands on Ben Barnes's "Revelation" about the Iran Hostage Crisis

Ben Barnes (l) and John Connally (c) meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, 1980. Barnes has recently repeated claims previously made to historian H.W. Brands (and published in Brands's biography of Ronald Reagan) that this meeting was part of Connally's effort to delay the release of American hostages held by Iran to secure Reagan's election.      Peter Baker recently reported in the New York Times that Ben Barnes, a Texas politician and pro…