When "it was decided" that Jimmy might be a candidate for President (I believe J. Paul Austin, President of Coca Cola, called David Rockefeller and told him, "I've found the perfect dupe."), Zbigneiw Brzezinski was dispatched to the Georgia Governor's mansion on West Paces Ferry Road to get Jimmy up to speed. He made Jimmy read the New York Times aloud every day so the peanut farmer would learn something and get the lingo right. That is why for so long when Jimmy spoke he spoke in 3 to 5 word bursts -- newspaper column length.
Zbig stuck with Jimmy as the puppet master throughout. Zbig's daughter, Mika, is now a morning news anchor. Zbig engineered the collapse of Iran and was responsible for the fall of the embassy.
Some info here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/feb/11/us-general-huysers-secret-iran-mission-declassifiedIf I recall correctly, the "students" were armed with Hk G3's flown in by General Huyser who lost control of them once they arrived.
When the embassy fell, to the surprise of Zbig (they were his friends!), Ambassador Sullivan, on the phone with Zbig as the embassy was attacked, said, "They are over the wall!!!!" Zbig refused to believe it. Sullivan screamed, "DO I NEED TO SAY IT IN POLISH?????"
In the meantime, Jimmy was busy kicking off the anti-nuclear scare, having, for some reason, activated FEMA, run by his buddy Jack Watson, some months earlier than scheduled, just in time to "manage" Three Mile Island. And Jimmy was dropping steel tariffs and putting American Steel out of business in deference to the Japs and the Brits. U.S. Steel became USX.
I guess you had to be here.