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...President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would quell the furor over the Iran arms scandal, if only temporarily. But Iranscam offered only more grim tidings: continued inertia and infighting at the White House, increased squabbling between the Administration and Capitol Hill over how to clear up the mess, questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey and the emotional stability of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, and a wave of Yuletide firings at the National Security Council. While the scandal progressed, seemingly with a momentum of its own, Reagan grew more and more isolated. "It is really...
...fine, except for a White House mess of the moment (you | don't want to know about it), and a grinning Wall Street thief who was fined $100 million (real money these days), and a touch of the flu. Have you heard of the flu? In late December 1986 the nation half skips, half drags itself toward Christmas. We trust that your Christmases are the same. Or have you licked the season too? Have you solved everything? This letter will be propped up in a capsule at the Statue of Liberty, to be opened on the statue's bicentennial...
...pleading their right under the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions. North, who was fired from the NSC staff when the scandal broke, and his former boss Poindexter, the National Security Adviser, who resigned at the same time, have repeatedly been identified as prime movers in the whole mess; they reiterated their refusal to testify last week. Others who did the same: Richard Secord, a retired Air Force general who was deeply involved in funneling aid to the contras and who, it turned out last week, was also involved in arms and hostage negotiations; Robert Dutton, an associate...
...should keep one thing to themselves, however: Learning-Window is educational. No sense in letting on about that. Who wants to mess...
...Fulbright, he never would have gotten in this mess." said Fulbright, referring to the crisis currently surrounding White House foreign policy-makers...