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...Generation X's first affair. Before Monica, before Whitewater, there was Iran-contra. It has been 15 years since Ollie North made his ardent defense of the secret exchange with Iran of arms for hostages. But a growing number of Iran-contra-rians have found their way back to high positions in the Bush Administration. Here, a rundown. --By Eric Roston...
OTTO REICH Was: Head of the Office of Public Diplomacy Role: Spread covert pro-contra propaganda Now: Assistant Secretary of State...
JOHN POINDEXTER Was: National Security Adviser Role: Managed Iran-contra affair Now: Intelligence hound for the Department of Defense...
After former president George Bush delivered a speech in China in 1998, a bright young American student stood up to ask a question. Why, Patrice Lumumba Ford wanted to know, had charges against Oliver North concerning the Iran-contra scandal been dropped during Bush's term in office nearly a decade earlier? Bush was taken aback by the directness of the question, according to several people present at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center...
...succumb to cynicism, Reich had told the college students jammed into Science Center A. But cynicism, especially where politics is concerned, is the bulwark of our generation. What else could protect us from the political scandals of our youth—from the dimly-recalled Iran-Contra affair, from Bill Clinton’s indiscretions, from the muddle of the 2000 presidential election? I have been a cynic since the onset of adolescence—have been proud of my cynicism, have recognized it for the sturdy rampart it is, have smiled wryly as it, undented, has deflected disappointment. Expect...