Word: honored
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Instead, he arrived surrounded by an aura of honor and injured virtue. The force was with him. He played brilliantly upon the collective values of America, upon its nostalgias, its memories of a thousand movies (James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, John Wayne in They Were Expendable) and Norman Rockwell Boy Scout icons. Ironically, he played precisely those American chords of myth and dreaming with which Ronald Reagan orchestrated his triumphal campaigns of 1980 and 1984. In the fading seasons of Reagan's presidency, young Ollie North was splendid at the Old Man's game...
Poindexter graduated in 1958 first in his class academically and was chosen brigade commander, signifying that he rated first in leadership ability as well, an extremely rare double honor. After a year at sea, he was selected for a scholarship program of advanced study in science. He chose nuclear physics at Caltech, even though he had taken only a single physics course at Annapolis. "The Navy's chief science adviser told me to scale back, saying, 'You'll never make it,' " Poindexter said in an interview with TIME last year. "But I thought I was very good, and nothing...
...National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. The Admiral won some brief glory, at least within the White House, for coordinating the U.S. capture of the terrorists who had seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Though North claimed credit for devising and executing the operation, colleagues say Poindexter deserves the greater honor. They vividly remember him sitting coolly at his desk munching a sandwich from the White House mess and sipping a glass of red wine while directing the interception by Navy jets of the Egyptian airliner carrying the seajackers...
...hyenas," said another. North has personally received some 15,000 telegrams of encouragement. All the while, Ollie-entrepreneurs were trying to capitalize on the fascination. At a Young Republicans' convention in Seattle, Joel Shelton sold out his 20 $4 Oliver North buttons (LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH -- ANAMERICAN HERO -- DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY) in an hour. "And when I ran out of them," he says, "people seemed kind of angry that there weren't more." A Washington rock-'n'-roll band released a song to the tune of Johnny B. Goode called Ollie Be Good. Sample lyrics...
...stunningly theatrical appearance, the outspoken Marine cloaks himself in honor and injured virtue. He insists he followed the orders of the President' s top advisers. -- Despite a wave of Olliemania, a Time poll shows that Americans find North more sympathetic than credible. -- This week the man most likely to implicate Reagan, John Poindexter, takes the stand. See NATION...