Word: iran-contra
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...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...
...decades and who got richer by trading with Iran, Clinton used an absolute power of the office in a way no President had before. U.S. history has seen its share of controversial presidential pardons: Andrew Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving element, since a trial...
...this, as Democrats claim, another Republican attempt to smear Clinton's name? He is hardly the first to grant pardons to those with whom he has political or personal ties. Former president George H. W. Bush pardoned six colleagues involved in the Iran-Contra affair, a move that ended the independent counsel's ability to prosecute the incident (especially significant, given that Bush was himself a key suspect...
...pardoned Jimmy Hoffa in 1971, then received the Teamsters' endorsement a year later. Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers on his first full day in office. Ronald Reagan pardoned two FBI officials who had authorized agents to break in to Vietnam protesters' offices. But he resisted calls to pardon Iran-contra defendants Oliver North and John Poindexter...
George W. Bush has kept quiet about Clinton's pardons, knowing he will want to issue a few of his own. His father, after losing re-election, pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-contra players. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, kept in the dark until those pardons were announced, accused Bush of trying to keep himself off the witness stand. Clinton can hope the memory of his pardons will fade just as quickly...