Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan exchanged gifts (a red robe for her, a horse blanket for him) and on Saturday flew off to Palm Springs, Calif., for a week's vacation, but in the Oval Office the President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would quell the furor over the Iran arms scandal, if only temporarily. But Iranscam offered only more grim tidings: continued inertia and infighting at the White House, increased squabbling between the Administration and Capitol Hill over how to clear up the mess, questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey and the emotional stability of Lieut. Colonel Oliver...
...businessmen's group, the President made the ill-conceived proposal that the Senate Intelligence Committee provide him with its findings on the Iran-contra matter. That way, said Reagan, the White House could declassify the information and release it "so the American people can judge for themselves" what the scandal is about. Since the still incomplete probe has found no evidence of presidential complicity in any misdeeds, the report might exonerate Reagan in the eyes of the public...
...Washington scandal does not yet have a memorable name, but it does have a face. It is a boyishly all-American face, the clear-eyed, clean-cut face that might be that of the second leading man in a 1940s war movie -- the intensely earnest but good-natured copilot who refuses to bail out under enemy fire. A face that appears, at first glance, to be a map of old-fashioned American virtues...
With its murky connections to the private contra supply network in danger of trickling exposure, along with virtually all of its other covert activities, the Administration seems destined to be debilitated for months to come. The realization that the scandal has a life of its own added new urgency to the maneuverings of Reagan's old California cronies (and of his wife) to prompt a housecleaning. Yet Reagan continues to resist. "If anything," said Senator Paul Laxalt, a longtime friend, after seeing Reagan early last week, "his heels are dug in even deeper than before." Don Regan, annoyed with someone...
Still, something has to give. The Administration has lost control of events: it has yet to get the facts out, and by omission the President has become a silent participant in the scandal, as past and present aides flounder about contradicting one another or refusing to divulge what they know. As a result, there are still as many unanswered questions as there were seven weeks ago. As the crisis festers, a vacuum is developing within the Administration. A replacement may have to be found for Casey. Spokesman Larry Speakes and Cabinet Secretary Al Kingon are leaving. Domestic Policy Adviser Jack...