Word: iran-contra
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Former President Ronald Reagan thundered into Virginia's Republican Senate nomination contest with an uncharacteristic political attack against a fellow Republican. Complaining that he was "getting pretty steamed" over what he claimed were false Iran-contra statements made by candidate Oliver North, Reagan fumed, "I never instructed him or anyone in my Administration to mislead Congress on Iran-contra matters and the private meetings he said he had with me just didn't happen...
...White House, on the other hand, learned from the Iran-Contra affair never to use a system which makes backup files, Gray said...
Harvard professors say the ongoing Whitewater controversy may tarnish the Clinton presidency, but it is nowhere near becoming a scandal the size of Watergate or the Iran-Contra affair...
...Whitewater] is fundamentally different from both Watergate and Iran-Contra," Verba says. "Watergate... [and] Iran-Contra had to do with violating the Constitution. The worst this [may] prove to be is slippery business of practices and favoritism...
Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh submitted the final report on his seven- year, $40 million inquiry into the Iran-contra affair. While Walsh's report states that neither President Reagan nor Vice President Bush committed crimes, it does say that Reagan "set the stage for criminal activities by others" and that Bush was fully involved in the affair despite his public comments to the contrary...