Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose poor advice to the President had only worsened the scandal. But Regan gave blunt answers to the committees and cracked self-deprecating jokes about his tenure in Washington. Describing the President as "not the type that likes to go around firing people," Regan quipped, "That's an ironic statement coming from me." It was clear that Regan had less of a grip on the White House than was once believed. He was kept in the dark about much of the Iran-contra affair. Playing off a question about the proper role of a "fall guy" protecting a | superior from...
...said that "in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."Last week nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore., found out that the Internal Revenue Service had seized the $70.76 in her account at a local bank. Her grandmother Bettye Fisher received a bank statement indicating that the IRS had taken the girl's money as partial payment for a delinquent tax bill of $21,182 owed by her grandfather Charles Fisher. Since the age of two, Carmin had been putting pennies into a coffee can labeled with another adage reflecting Franklin's sentiments -- A PENNY...
...said, was angry when he learned that Poindexter had authorized the diversion. Asserted Chief of Staff Howard Baker: "The President has said, 'I did not know it, and had I known about it, I would have stopped it.' That's the totality of it." Confronted with the White House statement, Poindexter calmly stuck to his story that Reagan would have approved his decision. "People can draw their own conclusions, I guess," he said...
...point during the hearings. Rudman's speech warranted scant attention in the press; it illicited a sullen agreement from North. But neither North nor his attorney, nor for that matter Senator Orrin Hatch or Henry Hyde, two of the biggest citers of the telegrams, made any public statement on the issue...
...final speech at the end of North's testimony, Representative Stokes made a moving statement in which he reflected the other reaction to North. If bigots are inspired by the sight of a marine in uniform standing up to an ethnically diverse Congress, Blacks like Stokes are left uneasy by that same figure asserting that popular will must be carried out. He said that North's intense belief in loyalty to individuals rather than loyalty to the law was particularly offensive to Black Americans. Stokes said that North seemed not to take the Constitution seriously, but rather was interested...