Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dirty tricks. Pungent character assessments. Expletives undeleted. Not far from the Iran-contra hearings, another portentous probe into White House misdoings came briefly back to life last week. Reason: the National Archives ) made public more than 250,000 pages of sensitive documents accumulated during the 1974 Watergate investigation of Richard Nixon. The papers come from the files of such top Nixon aides as John Dean, John Ehrlichman and Egil Krogh Jr. Among the newly unearthed gems...
...Gary Hart seemed to draw a curtain around his situation, rather than facing up to what was disquieting about his behavior. When asked in a TIME poll what would bother them more, only 7% cited extramarital sex, while 69% pointed to "not telling the truth." Likewise, as the Iran-contra affair has unfolded, Ronald Reagan has seemed to be evading the truth, rather than confronting it. When asked in the poll what bothered them most about Iranscam, a mere 9% cited sending money to the contras, only 25% cited sending arms to Iran, while 51% pointed to not telling...
...despite indications that other witnesses may tell the House-Senate Iran-contra hearings that Casey knew more, much more, than he admitted, a great deal is likely to remain forever uncertain. Said Republican Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont after the CIA director died of pneumonia last week, following several months of illness: "There are some things about this scandal that he takes to the grave. Knowing Bill Casey, I think he'd prefer it that...
...keep secrets. He mumbled and seemed to bumble, and wherever he worked in his dozen years as a top federal official, his desk and even his clothes suggested a mindless disarray. When the Tower commission tried to find out why a memo Casey had written about the Iran-contra affair never reached the White House, his aide's explanation seemed almost plausible: Casey had put it in the wrong...
...public is entitled to know if he is a person who has good judgment, the right to know if he is smart, the right to know if he understands what's going on. If the Miami Herald had reported that Gary Hart had invited to his house a contra leader, then I'd be very angry, because he has taken a strong stand against the contras. I don't find the Donna Rice story relevant to the campaign...