Word: scandalize
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...during the ban on such help from the U.S. Government, Calero replied, "There are things I just don't want to know. My father always said, 'Don't let people confide in you. They will confide in other people too, and you will be blamed.'" As the Iran-contra scandal unfolds, many in the Reagan Administration may eventually resort to the same know-nothing defense...
...freewheeling and shrewdly eccentric career of H. (for Henry) Ross Perot will argue with that description. The blunt-spoken, impulsive founder of Electronic Data Systems, who managed last week both to goad mighty General Motors into an expensive estrangement and get his name involved in Washington's Iran-contra scandal, has been variously called a dictator, a superpatriot and an inspiring, unassuming employer-philanthropist. He is also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats of corporate derring-do are the stuff of John Wayne-style legend and its modern equivalent, a television mini-series...
...came as a "bolt from the blue," and now he considers it the most serious problem he has confronted during his 14 years in public office. According to an intimate, the President remains "very disappointed and very disturbed about what he was not told" about the Iran-contra scandal. Reagan still thinks he does not know all the details of the Iranian arms shipments and the subsequent funneling of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. "Everybody keeps saying that they want all the facts," says this ally. "My God, so does he!" In his radio broadcast Saturday, the President regretfully conceded...
...Reagan fervently believes that his Administration can recover from this crisis, that there is still a reservoir of affection for him. Last week he took his firmest step yet toward coming to grips with the affair. Avoiding the befuddlement and bitterness that had marked his earlier statements on the scandal, he delivered a terse four-minute address from the Oval Office on Tuesday in which he 1) announced the choice of a distinguished new National Security Adviser; 2) urged the naming of an independent counsel to investigate the affair; 3) supported congressional requests for special committees to look into...
...arms deals were an error in judgment, Bush declared, "Clearly, mistakes were made." He added, "Given 20/20 hindsight, call it a mistaken tactic if you want to." Carefully trying to be both loyal and politically prudent, Bush also had to worry about his own possible connections to the scandal. "I was not aware of, and I oppose any diversion of funds, any ransom payments or any circumvention of the will of Congress," he said. Yet there are still many questions about his role in monitoring the efforts to supply the contras...