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In our Washington bureau, the excitement over the developing story was palpable. Staffers Brian Doyle and Neang Seng battled through a thicket of reporters and TV cameramen to stuff a pile of commission reports into knapsacks as soon as the copies were released at the White House Press Office on...
What is perhaps most distressing about this portrait is its familiarity. The picture of an inattentive, out-of-touch President may have been limned before, but never so authoritatively. The President who told the Tower commission, formally known as the President's Special Review Board, that he "had not been...
It was bound in soothing blue and bore the Presidential Seal. Its language was restrained, dignified, sometimes even gentle. But its message was scalding. Rarely has a presidential commission so sharply criticized its creator. The 288-page report of the President's Special Review Board on the Iran-contra affair...
The messages were often written in a kind of furious shorthand, using abbreviations, initials and acronyms at every opportunity, as though the writer were too rushed to tap out the entire word or name. AMCITS stood for "American citizens," NLT for "no later than." Vowels disappeared from staccato sentences: "We...
No one could say Fawn Hall wasn't loyal. When her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, asked her to work weekends at the National Security Council, she readily agreed. Hall, 27, a strikingly pretty blond with blue-green eyes, often turned down modeling jobs because she was afraid they might...