Really? I was alive at the time and the hostage crisis remains indelibly linked to Carter in my mind (aside from the belief of many on the left that Reagan cut some kind of deal with Iran to hold the hostages until after he won).

Do younger people recall it differently?

Well, there's a conservative effort to re-write that history:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/...