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...chaos that descended upon the White House" when the inevitable disclosure of the Iran initiative occurred. Regan told the commission that the President upon learning of the arms-for-hostages proposal said, "We should go slow on this but develop the contact." Ultimately, though, the panel rejected Regan's account that Reagan gave no prior approval to the Israeli arms shipments, and chastised him for giving poor advice to the President. More than almost any of his predecessors, Regan "asserted personal control over the White House staff and sought to extend this control to the National Security Adviser...
...comes off better than most other top members of the Administration. His participation in the Iran initiative appears to have been minimal: he was present at a meeting with Reagan last year during which the idea of trading arms for hostages was discussed, and, according to George Shultz's account, did not oppose the notion. But he was more generally in favor of the strategy of using arms shipments to establish a relationship with "moderate" elements in Iran. Although Bush is one of four statutory members of the NSC, the conclusion was that he had no management responsibility...
...after the scandal became known. He produced a chronology of Iranscam events that "had many inaccuracies." McFarlane is faulted for helping Poindexter, North and other NSC staffers produce a dozen versions of this chronology, which the former National Security Adviser admitted "did not present a full and completely accurate account." The board reported that it could not confirm whether North had shredded documents relevant to the investigations under...
Shortly thereafter, Poindexter appeared to have decided to relieve North of the contra "account." North was wounded, but responded with an artful memo in which he played the chastened schoolboy, managing to sound contrite and defiant at the same time: "Since I returned a few minutes ago I have been told that even my luncheon with my sister yesterday is in question . . . I can understand why you may well have reservations about both my involvement in Nicaragua policy and even my continued tenure here . . . I want you to know that it is for me, deeply disappointing to have lost your...
...former National Security Adviser's accounts were sometimes confusing, and he occasionally displayed an extraordinary disingenuousness. But the commission nonetheless accepted his account of how the President approved the August 1985 Israeli arms shipments to Iran and concluded that McFarlane "clearly" had Reagan's "full support" to supply those weapons to Iran, even though he may have lacked "explicit prior approval." As National Security Adviser, McFarlane "appeared caught between a President who supported the initiative and the Cabinet officers who strongly opposed it." While he made efforts to keep those officers and Reagan informed, he "was not always successful...