Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obstruction of Justice. Destroying evidence in advance of an investigation by Justice Department attorneys could fit the definition of obstruction. Shredding sensitive Government documents (which North said was done to protect lives and U.S. secrets) could also result in a charge of destruction of Government property...
...affair, Poindexter insisted he and he alone gave final approval to Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's proposal to take profits from U.S. arms sales to Iran and divert them to the Nicaraguan rebel forces. He claimed to have exercised this authority without ever telling the President, so as to protect Reagan from the "politically volatile issue" that subsequently exploded on them. "I made the decision," Poindexter declared in an even, matter-of-fact tone. "I was convinced that the President would, in the end, think it was a good idea. But I did not want him to be associated with...
...papers and many of his spiral-bound notebooks out of secure NSC offices to his home in suburban Great Falls, Va. Noting that North had complained about the lack of security at his house, Liman asked why he would do this. Back came the up-front answer: "To protect myself...
...replied, "most of those were days when young Marines died." The medals on his chest, said North, were really earned by the "young Marines that I led." He lectured the legislators on the Communist threat around the world, implying that he knew far better than they how to protect America against...
Well, not the Joe Friday, Jack Webb's immortally stylized police professional, but rather old Joe's nephew, encased in the comical form of Dan Aykroyd. A true inheritor of the manners and morals of the '50s, he is a cop whose unhappy lot is to protect and serve the Los Angeles of the 1980s. To him, that is roughly equivalent to working the night watch out of Gomorrah...