Some US business leaders wanted Hawaii to be annexed to the United States because it would improve trade with pacific rim countries. Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959.
Lol what.
I think they both had troubles with the Catholic Church and they both had multiple affairs with women.
The Iranian hostage crisis
During the Iranian revolution the shahs were overthrown. carter decision to allow the carter who was hated in Iran to travel to USA for hospitalization anger the Iranian, and the revolutionary students attacked the USA embassy taking 52 people hostage for 444 days. Carter diplomatic overtures and sanctions did not win over supreme leader Khomeini,and carter reelection bid was lost.
