Word: iran-contra
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Dole demanded an apology to his wife, but Bush refused to disavow the written statement. Political analysts suspect that paper was meant to put Dole on the defensive, shift attention away from the Vice President's still foggy Iran-contra role and goad the Kansas Senator into a display of his well-known temper. If so, it was at least partly a success...
...wake of last week's defeat, contra supporters tried to specify what went wrong. After all, it was only a year and a half ago that Congress approved $100 million in aid to the rebels. Some cited the Iran-contra affair. Others said political expediency had come into play. "This is an election year," said one contra booster, "and the plain fact is that there is not resounding ((public)) support...
Both North and his former boss at the National Security Council, Rear Adm. John Poindexter, are targets of an investigation by the independent counsel in the Iran-Contra affair...
...reveals that Kennedy was almost as nervous and stilted as Nixon. In the end, the benefit Bush can draw from his tangle with Rather will depend on whether viewers recall it as a moment of justified indignation or as a peevish attempt to avoid coming to terms with the Iran-contra affair. It could go either way, for in fact it was both...
According to George Bush, the true nature of the Iran-contra scandal was only revealed to him on Dec. 20, 1986. That Saturday morning, nearly a month after Edwin Meese had rocked the nation by disclosing the diversion of Iranian arms- sale profits to the contras, Minnesota Senator David Durenberger, then chairman of the Intelligence Committee, drove to the Vice President's home. "Not until that briefing," Bush says, "did I fully appreciate how the initiative was actually implemented...