Word: regan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witnesses, the congressional committees probing the Iran-contra affair finally heard from the investigator who brought the scandal to light and the official who presided over the White House staff while the ill-conceived policy was unfolding. Neither Attorney General Edwin Meese nor former Chief of Staff Don Regan did much to shake the devastating portrait that has emerged from the hearings of a secret foreign- policy apparatus run amuck and key officials more concerned with pulling together a convincing alibi than getting to the bottom of the tangled tale...
...never had much use for the Secretary of State. According to Shultz, one presidential assistant, Jonathan Miller, even took to nixing his travel plans; the Secretary was forced to lodge a personal complaint with the President. (Miller insists such travel decisions were made by Chief of Staff Don Regan...
...under which U.S. contacts with a "second channel" (a relative of a high-ranking Iranian official) would be used only for intelligence gathering and State Department officials rather than CIA operatives would conduct the conversations. Without telling Shultz or his deputies, Casey then went through Chief of Staff Don Regan to get the President to let the CIA retain an operational role in any policy toward Iran. Shultz termed this move "deceptive...
...with it last Nov. 24. Poindexter said he promptly offered to resign; on the following day the Attorney General instructed him to do so. Strangely, however, Meese never asked Poindexter who approved the transfer of arms profits to the contras. Nor did White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan question Poindexter about the diversion...
When McFarlane resigned toward the end of 1985, worn out by a turf war with Chief of Staff Donald Regan, the President named Poindexter to succeed him. It was widely believed Regan, who is thought to have been present at nearly every one of Poindexter's daily briefings of the President, considered Poindexter a man he could control. The new National Security Adviser did manage to resolve two long-standing policy disputes within the Administration: he mediated the decisions to abandon U.S. observance of the unratified SALT II treaty and to retaliate against terrorism by launching the 1986 air strike...