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Former President Ronald Reagan thundered into Virginia's Republican Senate nomination contest with an uncharacteristic political attack against a fellow Republican. Complaining that he was "getting pretty steamed" over what he claimed were false Iran-contra statements made by candidate Oliver North, Reagan fumed, "I never instructed him or anyone in my Administration to mislead Congress on Iran-contra matters and the private meetings he said he had with me just didn't happen...
...White House, on the other hand, learned from the Iran-Contra affair never to use a system which makes backup files, Gray said...
Harvard professors say the ongoing Whitewater controversy may tarnish the Clinton presidency, but it is nowhere near becoming a scandal the size of Watergate or the Iran-Contra affair...
...Whitewater] is fundamentally different from both Watergate and Iran-Contra," Verba says. "Watergate... [and] Iran-Contra had to do with violating the Constitution. The worst this [may] prove to be is slippery business of practices and favoritism...
...RACHEL ABRAMS, WIFE OF FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE ELLIOT ABRAMS (CONVICTED OF IRAN-CONTRA-RELATED PERJURY); FROM A WASHINGTON TIMES OP-ED PIECE ON WHITEWATER