Word: albert
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...Button account was disclosed by a key player in the scandal, Iranian- born Businessman Albert Hakim. He handled the financial side of the Iran- contra "enterprise," while North took care of the political end and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, a business partner of Hakim's, oversaw operations. "I intended to profit from my activities," said Hakim. "I never made any pretense about that fact." And profit he did. The enterprise made a total of $14.9 million from its transactions; $8 million of those profits were frozen in bank accounts after the scandal broke...
...never seemed to leave the governing boards. In the early 1960's, shortly before his assassination, Overseer and President John F. Kennedy '40 held a meeting of the overseers in the White House. He resigned shortly thereafter to attend to his Oval Office duties. This year, Democratic Presidential hopeful Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) is among the University-nominated candidates for the Board...
...ALBERT GORE...
...Neill then became a crucial figure in the Watergate crisis in 1973. When Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma failed to act after Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, the then-majority leader swiftly moved in to continue House investigations. He gave Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey the green light to begin impeachment procedures, becoming one of the crucial figures causing President Richard M. Nixon's resignation...
...government outsider, but he took his absurd style of governing as a government outsider a bit too far when he allowed his aides to formulate and execute American foreign policy in the White House basement, bypassing the State Department as well as the Congress. At one point Albert Hakim, an Iranian financier and arms merchant, was sent to Iran by high administration officials to negotiate secret treaties on behalf of the U.S. with the ayatollahs...