Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captives and inviting the seizure of more. When an aide questioned the legality of the bargaining, Reagan replied, "The American people will never forgive me if I fail to get these hostages out over this legal question." The comment carried a ring distressingly close to the spontaneous declaration of Fawn Hall, North's document-shredding secretary: "Sometimes you have to go above the written...
Olliemania was breaking out all over. There was the irreverent: "The First Annual Fawn Hall Shredding Party" at a bar in Marina del Rey, Calif., in which the contest winner destroyed a computer printout marked CONFIDENTIAL. And the worshipful: a candlelight vigil by about 100 Olliephiles gathered on the steps of the Utah state capitol in Salt Lake City. The vigil, organized by an Annapolis classmate of North's, began with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by spirited chanting of "We love Ollie...
North accused the committees of "snickering" when the hosiery item was posted in a wall enlargement. "You know that I've got a beautiful secretary," he said of his assistant Fawn Hall. "And the good Lord gave her the gift of beauty, and the people snicker that Ollie North might have been doing a little hanky-panky with his secretary. Ollie North has been loyal to his wife since the day he married her." When he asked his "best friend" Betsy about the purchase, she told him, "You old buffoon, you went there to buy leotards for our two little...
...Retired generals feel a sufficient proprietary sense to conduct foreign policy initiatives on behalf of the U.S. in the Caribbean and the Middle East. Active-duty officers, an ambassador and an Assistant Secretary of State project this same air of haughtiness. Perhaps this stand is best represented by Fawn Hall. She justified shredding documents and other actions she knew were improper and irregular by her belief in the correctness of Oliver North's "initiatives." Does Hall think that she, Lieut. Colonel North and others who temporarily occupy Government jobs of trust and responsibility are the Government? These people's actions...
National Secretaries' Week should be renamed Fawn Hall Week. This young woman has given the world its most riveting demonstration ever of the near superhuman demands of being a professional secretary. Skewered by the accusatory glare of global publicity like a pinned butterfly, she has faced her congressional inquisitors with poise and outlined her activities and opinions with candor, dignity and grace under the pressure of probing examination and political pettifogging. She offers no excuses for her absolute loyalty to her boss or for having provided her unquestioning support in pursuit of his operational goals. Fawn Hall has stolen...