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Thu Dec-29-05 03:03 PM
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38. Carter initially appointed Ted Sorenson, JFK aide, to CIA Director

However, the appointment had to be withdrawn because Congress objected that Sorenson had no "CIA experience." The odd thing is that this question wasn't raised when Ford appointed George Bush as CIA Director, who, ostensibly, also had no CIA experience. There are volumes inherent in that scenario.

But Bush was out at CIA the day Carter was inaugurated. Adm. Stansfield Turner tossed out a big group of "Bush" people in the CIA and these are the folks who spent the next four years attempting to smear Carter and his administration.

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