Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's daily schedule runs him, he does not run it. He rises about 7:30, catches some of the morning talk shows, peruses the morning papers over breakfast and then at nine walks through the archway from the residence to the Oval Office. The briefing with his senior staff...
They were only five words, and rather bland ones at that. But they were among the most self-damaging the President of the U.S. could have uttered. "I was not fully informed," Ronald Reagan told the reporters he summoned to a special briefing last Tuesday. In an attempt to defend...
It was more than enough to raise dread echoes of the word so often tossed around in hyperbole, so rarely in earnest: Watergate. The parallels might be exaggerated -- this scandal, after all, was announced by the Administration rather than forced out by the courts -- but they were there just the...
One briefing, in fact, led to an additional accusation against the Administration. On Thursday, Representative Jim Wright, who will become Speaker when the newly elected Congress meets, went to the White House to hear from National Security Adviser John Poindexter. Afterward the Texas Democrat told reporters that Iran had purchased...
The next morning, after a briefing by Casey and other Administration officials, Wright amplified his charge. He said that "other countries" besides Israel, or at least "citizens of other countries," had been shipping arms to Iran "with the complicity of the United States." If the briefers in fact said something...