President Jimmy Carter's Carnal Mistake
In December 1977 , President Jimmy Carter planned a misstep to Poland , a commonwealth whose masses were , at the time , still fiercely huddled behind the Iron Curtain . What Should Have happen : Your average , drilling - yet - passively - uncongenial Cold War - epoch visit . Carter would fell in , say a few carefully choose words implying that perhaps Poland should pay more attention to human right , which the Poles would then slyly dismiss ....