NBC Nightly News - 1980-07-26
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[0:02] >> from New York. This is NBC Nightly News
[0:06] with Jessica Savage.
[0:09] >> Good evening. More trouble for President
[0:11] Carter tonight over Billy Carter's ties
[0:13] to Libya. The White House said it
[0:16] intends to disclose all of the details
[0:18] by the end of the week, but the
[0:19] explanations are apparently too slow and
[0:22] coming for Senate Majority Leader Robert
[0:24] Bird. Bird is quoted today as calling
[0:26] for the president to tell the truth. If
[0:29] there are delays, according to Bird, it
[0:31] is going to be damaging. It shouldn't
[0:33] have to be extracted, his words, tooth
[0:35] by tooth. Well, this afternoon, the
[0:37] White House conceded it was having
[0:39] difficulty getting the full explanation
[0:41] of Billy Carter's role in freeing the
[0:43] hostages. White House correspondent Bill
[0:45] Lynch picks up the story from here.
[0:50] The White House said today there are
[0:51] still too many ambiguities to be cleared
[0:53] up before it can say for sure who first
[0:56] suggested asking Billy Carter to use his
[0:58] Libyan contacts to help resolve the Iran
[1:01] hostage crisis. The Washington Post
[1:03] today quoted informed sources as saying
[1:05] that President Carter himself was the
[1:07] most likely source for the idea. While
[1:09] press secretary Jodie Powell
[1:11] characterized that report by saying,
[1:13] "I'm not going to discuss hypotheses."
[1:15] He did not rule out Mr. Carter as the
[1:17] first one to suggest contacting his
[1:19] brother. Pal said that question is still
[1:21] under study. The source of the
[1:23] suggestion to use Billy Carter is
[1:24] relevant because of questions raised
[1:26] about the wisdom of having presidential
[1:28] relatives take on such assi