Word: shultz
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...controversy, Bush admitted that he knew about the arms sales themselves, and that the sales were designed in part to secure the release of American hostages. But he said he wouldn't have supported this plan if he had known that Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and George P. Shultz opposed...
...memo released last August in court proceedings against Weinberger contradicts Bush's statements. The memo, dictated by Shultz to his assistant after a conversation with Weinberger, indicated clearly that Bush had discussed Weinberger's and Shultz's feelings on the matter. "It's on the Record [sic]," the memo said...
...continued claim that he was "out of the loop" or "excluded from key meetings" when this murky, subterranean scheme was being hatched in the upper echelons of the Reagan Administration has been constantly challenged, notably by a 1987 memo dictated to an aide by former Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Bush's repeated insistence that he was "not in the loop" on the arms-for-hostages deal has been steadily eroded. Documents revealed in early September suggest that despite his claims to the contrary, Bush knew in early 1986 of objections to the sale by Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
Bush also claims in Looking Forward that he didn't know that Shultz and Weinberger "had serious doubts" about the Iran deal; otherwise, he says, he might have opposed it. But here is what Shultz told the Tower commission about the crucial January 1986 meeting at which he and Weinberger made their last stand against the operation: "I expressed myself as forcefully as I could . . . Everybody was well aware of my views." Bush, Reagan, William Casey and Poindexter "all had one opinion, and I had a different one," Shultz said...