Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, much about the contra fund diversion remains unknown. Who ordered the diversion, and where did the money go? Answering those questions will be one of the main objectives of the Iranscam independent counsel, Lawrence Walsh, and the Senate and House committees that are also probing the scandal...
There is a tendency in the fervid national catharsis over the Iran arms scandal to treat the past six years of Ronald Reagan's presidency as a kind of hallucination...
...trouper it was a masterly performance. Speaking to the nation on Ash Wednesday in perhaps the most important address of his long political career, Ronald Reagan was simultaneously repentant yet still proud, regretful yet determined. He unflinchingly accepted responsibility for the Iran-contra scandal that has threatened his presidency. But while admitting that his overture to Iran quickly turned into an arms-for-hostages swap because he was so deeply concerned about the hostages' well-being, the President refused to % disavow the initiative as wrongheaded from the start...
Forward momentum was something Reagan desperately needed after months adrift in the Iran-contra scandal and the devastating report from the Tower commission depicting an inattentive President surrounded by reckless advisers. The President's response to the report, and his widely applauded appointments of a new White House chief of staff and CIA director to go along with his new National Security Adviser, gave a boost to an Administration that had been foundering. Though it failed to address several of the more troubling aspects of Iranscam, the meticulously crafted twelve-minute speech showed that Reagan recognized the severity...
...speech did not resolve the most serious question raised by Iranscam: Is the President at 76 sufficiently alert and involved to lead the country? To regain political advantage for the final two years of his Administration, Reagan must still overcome formidable obstacles, particularly the ongoing investigations of the scandal and his passive work habits...