Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHILE CASPAR WEINBERGER AND FIVE OTHER SUSPECTS IN the Iran-contra affair got pardons for Christmas, the Santa in the White House was not so generous to everyone. CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, the onetime Defense Secretary indicted for helping the Bank of Credit & Commerce International secretly buy two U.S. banks, received coal in his stocking. He was up for consideration, but counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended against a pardon, and Bush agreed. Reason: Clifford's indictment suggests he reaped a bundle from his B.C.C.I. connection...
Those involved with the Pollard affair had suspicions that Bush, in a bid to woo Jewish voters, would pardon the spy toward the end of the presidential campaign. But, as Secretary of State-turned Chief of Staff James Baker put it so bluntly in a White House meeting, Jews were not among the GOP's top concerns on Election Day. (Quite frankly, American Jews--more than 80% of whom voted for Bill Clinton--did not want four more years of Bush and his Israel-squeezing sidekick, anyway.) Bush remained firm and instead pardoned a man who helped to orchestrate Pollard...
...dogged persistence--and, yes, his anger and vindictiveness--make Lawrence Walsh the true hero of the Iran-contra affair...
...said Virginia Senator Charles S. Robb would run. (Despite the fact that Robb had a seven-year affair and hangs out with lots of people who snort cocaine.) Then it was John H. Sunni, the irascible chief of staff who was eventually fired because Bush couldn't find a single person who liked...
...former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams and three ex-CIA officials: Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers and Clair George. Conspicuously absent from Bush's list were other Iran-contra defendants, including Richard Secord, deemed by the President to have gained financially from the affair...