Word: iran-contra
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...attend religious services because "I pose a ((security)) threat to several hundred people if I go to church"). This performance prompted fears that at 73 Reagan was too old and doddering for the office. Given the record of his second term (his fogginess on the details of < Iran-contra, Nancy Reagan's astrologer), these turned out to be legitimate concerns. But they vanished in the second debate as soon as Reagan delivered his practiced crack that he had no plans to "exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." What was ironic was that Reagan's closing statement...
Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has won a big one in the legal wrangles leading toward his trial in connection with the Iran-contra affair. Federal Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington dismissed a critical count charging Weinberger with obstruction of Congress in concealing the existence of more than 1,700 pages of handwritten notes taken during key meetings in 1985 and 1986. Weinberger still faces counts of lying to Congress about Saudi financial support for the contras and delivery of U.S. missiles to Iran...
...also true that the candidates persist in being evasive about questionable episodes in their past. In Bush's case, it is what he knew as Ronald Reagan's Vice President about the Iran-contra scandal. His continued claim that he was "out of the loop" or "excluded from key meetings" when this murky, subterranean scheme was being hatched in the upper echelons of the Reagan Administration has been constantly challenged, notably by a 1987 memo dictated to an aide by former Secretary of State George Shultz...
After Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra and the Gary Hart indiscretion, it is hard to make a case against the public's right to know. But not impossible. Candor is necessary when it really matters, and little more than a nuisance when it doesn't. At the moment, people are unsure which is which. A lie may be a defensive response to an unwarranted invasion of privacy. The oddity that Oprah and Phil and Geraldo can attract guests willing to confess anything on TV does not oblige everyone else to bare all when asked...
...Iran-contra. The credibility of Bush's repeated insistence that he was "not in the loop" on the arms-for-hostages deal has been steadily eroded. Documents revealed in early September suggest that despite his claims to the contrary, Bush knew in early 1986 of objections to the sale by Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...