peanutgate had a perfect name. in the end, though, substantively it did not exactly distinguish itself as a scandal. this was six months later. >> good evening. jimmy carter was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the handling of funds at his peanut warehouse during his campaign for the presidency. >> i believe it's appropriate to state right here that there is no evidence to establish that president jimmy carter committed any crimes. no indictment can or should be brought against anyone. none will be filed. the answer is that no evidence whatsoever was discovered that any moneys were diverted from the warehouse into the campaign pf eve . every nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse and no funds were -- >> every nickel and every peanut. they traced every single goober. republicans in 1979 spent six months and they hired a special prosecutor. they went out of their way to make sure it was a republican special prosecutor who they hired at the department of justice to just tear everythin

bridgegate, deflategate, i've always felt that the one that got the best name of all was definitely peanutgate. and part of the reason i've always liked it is because of the sort of admirable restraint that is reflected in that name. if it is about peanuts, if you think about it, it could just as reasonably been called goobergate, right? goober is an even funnier word for peanut. that could have been an even greater thing to call something

bridgegate, deflategate, i've always felt that the one that got the best name of all was definitely peanutgate. and part of the reason i've always liked it is because of the sort of admirable restraint that is reflected in that name. if it is about peanuts, if you think about it, it could just as reasonably been called goobergate, right? goober is an even funnier word for peanut. that could have been an even greater thing to call something goobergate. but what it actually went by at the time in all seriousness because it was supposed to be a very, very serious thing, the

they called it peanutgate. very seriously. oh, my god, did they want it to be a big deal. >> the republicans in congress have been calling loudly for a special prosecutor to investigate the carter family's peanut busines

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