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McFarlane played a major role in the Iran-Contra affair, even after he resigned as national security adviser in December 1985. The following May, he led a secret mission to Tehran to open contact with so-called moderate Iranians who were thought to hold influence with kidnappers of American hostages in Lebanon. He brought with him a cake and a Bible signed by President Reagan...
Three other important factors, he says, are the state of the economy, the choice of the Democratic running mate, and the pending results of the Iran-Contra investigation, which will have "consequences that are almost inevitably going to be negative for the Republican Party...
...Whether he asked Lieut. Colonel Oliver North if the Marine had written the Iran-contra diversion memo, found in North's files, that touched off the Reagan Administration's worst scandal...
Cohen is vice-chairman of the Intelligence Committee and was also a member of the Iran-Contra committee which investigated the sale of U.S. arms to Iran and the diversion of some of the profits to the Contra guerrillas. President Reagan withheld notice from Congress for 10 months about the Iranian arms sales...
...session with reporters that blended international affairs with the domestic presidential campaign swirling around him, the President confirmed anew that Vice President George Bush expressed reservations during the Iran-Contra affair. But he refused to say precisely what Bush had told...