Panama Canal: The Endless Debate of the Carter-Torrijos Treaties
  • Title
  • Home
  • Background
  • Debate and Diplomacy
    • The Great Debate
    • Treaty and the Public
    • Treaty and the Senators
    • Carter the Chief Diplomat
    • Victory at Last
    • Senator List
  • Consequences, Successes and Failures
    • Short Term
    • Long Term
    • Unintended Consequences
  • Conclusion
  • Political Cartoons
  • Process Paper
  • Bibliography

Carter the Chief Diplomat

To get votes, Carter made concessions to many senators.
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Treaty Related Concessions

"The administration allowed all six reservations and seven understandings to the two treaties, in addition to the two leadership amendments.... But in dealing with non-germane concessions the reservations allowed the likes of Nunn, Bentson and Talmadge, the administration signaled a willingness to compromise, to make whatever trade-offs were necessary to ensure against critical defections."  - Limits of Victory,  George Moffat III, page 96
The Carter Administration was put in a delicate position to get DeConcini's vote (see document below).
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Non-Treaty Related Concessions

 






"So he asked me a couple of questions about his book, and I could almost  quote his book and I convinced him. And I believe that was one of the reasons later that he made a vote that has transformed life in Panama..."
- Jimmy Carter

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