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...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...
...their control of the federal government for 20 of the last 24 years to place right-wing ideologues within executive and regulatory agencies. This has led to the subversion, of not only the civil service, but also of the clear intent of many of the laws the bureaucrats have sworn to enforce...
Vice President Itamar Franco would be sworn in as President with a mandate of up to six months and face the daunting tasks of cobbling together a government and reviving a paralyzed economy. Nonetheless, Latin America's biggest nation would display one sign of a mature democracy: for the first time resolving a government crisis by strict constitutional means, without military intervention. But it is too early for relief that "the system works." Collor might confuse matters by trying to exercise some authority as a shadow president while suspended. And there is a slim chance that he will beat...
Nothing to sneer at, surely, but will the final number sworn in next term be enough to constitute 1992 as Year of the Woman...
...they did. As a 15-year-old, Clinton gave a sworn deposition against his stepfather: "I was present on March 27, 1959, and it was I who called my mother's attorney, who in turn had to get the police to come to the house to arrest the defendant. The last occasion in which I went to my mother's aid, when he was abusing my mother, he threatened to mash my face in if I took her part." Clinton not only forgot that event; he also forgot that he ever gave the deposition, now on file in the Garland...