Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the operation of his Government, a Chief Executive who is not only uninformed but chooses not to know what is going on in his name. For many close observers of Reagan, the surprise is not that his passive approach has got him into trouble, but that such a fiasco did not happen sooner...
...judgment, however serious. Errors in judgment can be, and in Reagan's case regularly have been, forgiven. But this disaster throws a pitiless light on the way the President does his job, confirming the worst fears of both his friends and his critics. Simultaneously stumbling into the Iran fiasco and allowing a bizarre scam to fund the contras to take place had an impact powerful enough to scar Teflon precisely because the events seemed to reveal personal characteristics that were both fundamental and worrisome...
...Administration aides scrambled last week to deflect blame for the Iranian arms fiasco away from themselves, a good number of fingers were pointed directly at Ronald Reagan's increasingly visible and often imperious chief of staff. More than ever Donald Regan, 67, seems to be out front these days, projecting an aura that at times makes him seem both commanding and condescending. With a self-confidence burnished by nine years as the chief of Merrill Lynch, he has set up a hierarchical structure that puts him alone atop the upward flow of information. Combined with Reagan's inclination to rely...
...unraveling Iranian fiasco is the latest in a string of controversies that have called into question the Administration's credibility and competence in foreign affairs. They threaten to dissipate six years of aggressive effort by Reagan to strengthen America's standing in the world. Among the other setbacks to credibility: the disingenuous explanations of the shady connections between the White House and the private network run by former CIA personnel supplying aid to the contras fighting in Nicaragua, the campaign of "disinformation" against Libya proposed by the National Security Council, and Reagan's befuddled and dubious accounts of what...
...press overshot its mark. Aside from attacking the deceptive plan masterminded by National Security Advisor John Poindexter, the media should have taken a look at its own role in the disinformation fiasco...