Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then how come Oliver North had no trouble winning a position in 1981 on the National Security Council staff, where emotional stability should be a prime requisite? Probably because hardly anyone knew, until the Miami Herald reported it last week, that North had spent three weeks in Bethesda Naval Hospital for emotional problems six years before he joined the NSC. Why no one knew is another question...
Oliver North? The deputy NSC director for political-military affairs? Washington insiders maintained that no lieutenant colonel could ever run such a complicated, clandestine operation alone. Those who knew North from the U.S. Naval Academy and Viet Nam were not so sure. Wherever he was, they said, he seemed to make things happen. Born in Texas, North was raised in upstate New York and was voted most courteous in his graduating high school class. He decided that the Marine Corps was his calling and eventually won a place at Annapolis. While at the academy, he became the brigade welterweight boxing...
...midst of the most severe crisis of his presidency, Ronald Reagan must confront the wear and tear of age on his body. On Jan. 4 the President will enter Bethesda Naval Hospital for prostate surgery. Reagan, 75, suffers from an ailment common to men over 50: uncomfortable pressure on the urinary tract from an enlarged prostate gland. Reagan will also receive a colonoscopy to track his recovery from his 1985 cancer operation...
McFarlane discussed the Iranian overture with Shultz, Weinberger and Casey -- ironically, at about the time when Reagan, in a July 8 speech, was listing Iran as being first among a "confederation of terrorist states." In mid-July McFarlane, accompanied by Shultz, broached Kimche's ideas to Reagan in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the President was recuperating from colon surgery. Reagan saw the dangers of an arms-for-hostages swap, but also appreciated the value of new contact with Iran. He bought the idea that arms shipments would be intended to strengthen a group that might eventually be able to wean...
After returning home, he worked on policy and planning at Marine headquarters. During the aborted 1980 mission to free the U.S. hostages in Tehran, North led a detachment of Marines who were poised in Turkey to assist the rescuers. A year later, while studying at the Naval War College in Providence, he came to the attention of Navy Secretary John Lehman because of a paper he wrote extolling the modern military uses of the battleship. Lehman pushed North onto the NSC staff, where he quickly became known as an ardent Reaganite. He was an obsessive worker; starting...