Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IRAN ARMS scandal has become the biggest media event of recent years--far surpassing the smash Libya Bombing Show, the shuttle explosion and even the New York City "crack" epidemic. Not a day goes by without a headline-making revelation of questionable White House conduct...
...REAGAN'S tried and true damage control method suddenly break down so dramatically? For several reasons. Certainly, the magnitude and visibility of the crisis was a factor. The arms deal involves allegations of criminal conduct, incompetence and rotten policy at the highest levels of the government...
...addition to threatening the foundations of our government, the Administration's debacle has destroyed this country's ability to conduct foreign policy. The conduct of the White House has undermined our alliances, aided our enemies and shown America to be completely untrustworthy. It will be a long time before the U.S. enjoys any credibility abroad. But the first step toward reestablishing confidence in our government is to demonstrate that it still works, to find and prosecute those who broke...
...special meeting Tuesday morning, Meese laid his findings before the NSC. The advisers agreed that the Administration had to disclose immediately what the Attorney General had discovered. Reagan had asked Meese to conduct the press briefing that was scheduled for noon that day. "I was not being apprised of a great opportunity," joked Meese, but his manner belied his words. He spoke with verve and at times appeared to be enjoying playing again the prosecutor he once...
...likely to satisfy Congress. In a letter to Meese that put on the record what many other legislators had demanded, a House Judiciary Subcommittee requested the appointment of a Watergate-style independent counsel. Subcommittee Chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, bluntly challenged the Attorney General's ability to conduct an impartial probe, citing among other things "your closeness to the President." The White House is so far resisting calls for such a special prosecutor. But as more information emerges each day, it becomes less likely that the affair can be concluded simply through Meese's probe...