Word: iran-contra
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...that chill the candor of future advisers, as well as Presidents? Those conflicting points of law, confronted in the doctrine of Executive privilege during the Watergate scandal, were raised once again last week by Ronald Reagan as he struggled to avoid being pulled into the legal battles over the Iran-contra affair that had marred his presidency...
...office, implying that Reagan would have a much stronger case if George Bush joined him in asking that the diary excerpts be suppressed. So far, Bush has not, and for an obvious reason: it might appear that he and Reagan both have something to hide about their Iran-contra roles...
Unless the legal bickering over Executive privilege becomes protracted, Reagan may face imminent disclosure of his mysterious jottings, made in leather-bound notebooks. To date, only two of his closest aides have seen the original diary. The few attorneys who have examined excerpts say they contain no Iran-contra bombshells. But Poindexter, who insisted in Senate testimony that "the buck stopped with me" in keeping the diversion of arms profits a secret from his boss, hopes the diary will show that Reagan gave him at least implicit direction to do what...
...Watergate, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled last week that Ronald Reagan must turn over portions of his private diaries to his onetime National Security Adviser John Poindexter. In Greene's view, 29 of the handwritten entries could "contain information of significance" to Poindexter's defense in the Iran-contra trial. Greene, who has viewed transcripts of the journals, says they hold no bombshells that will refute the former Commander in Chief's claims that he neither "knew of nor authorized" a diversion of Iranian arms-sale profits to help Nicaraguan contra rebels. However, the judge allowed that...
...that led to the resignation of Jimmy Carter's budget director. Charles Wick, the Reagan-era head of the U.S.I.A. and a frequent Safire target, gushes, "There's no way you can dislike the guy. I admire him so much." Perhaps no journalistic jousting caused the anguish of the Iran-contra rift with the late CIA director William Casey, whose 1966 congressional campaign Safire managed. Critical columns led to angry phone calls and a shouting match at a party -- all of which Safire recounted in the Times. But Sophia Casey, the CIA director's widow, recalls that her husband...