Word: iran-contra
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Don’t 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...
...George comes from very, very humble origins,” said former Senator Warren B. Rudman (R—N.H.), who has worked closely with Mitchell since they served together on a Senate committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987. “[He is] the son of working people who went on to have an extraordinary career without many of the advantages that a number of successful Americans have...
...after his prominent role in the Iran-Contra investigations, Mitchell was appointed the Senate majority leader in 1988, capping off his distinguised senatorial career before his retirement...
DIED. EDWARD BOLAND, 90, influential Democratic Congressman whose amendments opposing the Reagan Administration's support for rebels in Nicaragua set the stage for the Iran-contra affair; in Springfield, Mass...
...slipped into the Hart Senate Office Building's ventilation system and infected other areas. Fortunately, by this time, someone had realized it made no sense to bring people back into Hart to be swabbed, and so moved everyone to the Russell Caucus room, scene of the Watergate hearings, the Iran-contra hearings and the Army-McCarthy hearings...