Word: shultz
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger whispered in the ear of former Secretary of State George Shultz, Kissinger still looking as if he was plotting huge power moves around the world...
...GEORGE SHULTZ + I opposed -- Bill Casey, Ed Meese + VP favored -- as did Poindexter." With those words, taken from his personal handwritten notes of the Jan. 7, 1986, White House meeting about the notorious Iran arms-for- hostages deal, former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger contradicted both his own sworn statements that he had any evidence relevant to the Iran-contra affair and the assertions by George Bush that he was not aware of the proposed swap. As a result, Weinberger was indicted by a Washington grand jury on one additional felony count of making false statements to Congress. The revelation also...
Weinberger's note, discovered last spring, explicitly describes the Oval Office discussion of the plan to sell 4,000 TOW missiles to Iran in exchange for five American hostages, as well as his and Secretary of State Shultz's declared opposition. Bush has repeatedly denied that he, then Vice President, was aware that Shultz and Weinberger were opposed...
...fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial, monosyllabic and scatological. No less a personage than former Secretary of State George Shultz, now penning his memoirs at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus, says, "I have come to admire him as a great intellect...
While he refused to say whether he will accept the post, Shultz said he is interested enough to visit Harvard a second time...