including Rafshoon’s scathing ads about Sanders. “Carter came up to me,” Rafshoon said, “and said, ‘I need to see these commercials.’ All the way through—governor, president—he ...

The paper was tissue-thin and its color a light mustard. A day earlier, on December 29, Rafshoon’s friend of 58 years, President Jimmy Carter, had died at his home in Plains, Georgia. Rafshoon was ...