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Professional historian Newt Gingrich has some advice for President Obama: study history so as not to repeat it. In other words, don’t become the next Jimmy Carter. The GOP candidate was discussing Obama’s handling of the 19 Americans being detained under house arrest by the Egyptian government. “I think people need to look carefully at the Iranian hostage crisis and then this Egyptian government,” he said on Fox and Friends. “We're giving them a billion dollars a year, and now they think we’re so weak that to appease their radicals they’ve locked up Americans.” He also insisted that Obama “should not handle it the way Carter did, which was a case study in weakness.”