Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Tower Commission released its report, supporters and critics wondered how the president could allow his policy initatives to "degenerate" and the constitution to be disregarded. These questions of competence, however, soon became entangled with questions of health...
...both public and private, generated on behalf of the rebels, including $27 million in humanitarian aid sent in 1985. The measure, which would withhold the $40 million remaining of the $100 million appropriated last year, was an artful ploy linking opposition to the contras with congressional disgust over the Tower commission's revelations about the Administration's inept and probably illegal efforts on behalf of the contras. "Before we send another dime to the contras," said the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat David Bonior of Michigan, "we must know where the previous funds have gone...
Martin said that there is no present need to use the land to house patients, because of new land developments in the Charlestown Navy Yard and the building of a new inpatient tower...
...speculation about his wife's overreaching made the President angrier than any other aspect of the controversy over the Tower report. Reagan was so irked at the Dragon Lady image that he broke his rule of silence during a photo session to denounce the Nancy stories as "despicable fiction" by people who "should be ashamed of themselves." Friends rushed to the First Lady's defense. "Rubbish," said Columnist George Will of the flood of press accounts. The First Lady shrugged off the accusations as "ridiculous." Indeed, while she is by no means bashful about offering advice to her husband...
...himself during a ten-day Asian trip and found the Chinese bent on convincing him that only the pace of reform had slowed. At one point, however, Deng showed that the best defense was a good offense. He tweaked Shultz by alluding to Iranscam and the Tower report, saying, "By engaging in politics and by running the government, one has to meet with some troubles and difficulties. We have also had a similar case." Shultz insisted that Reagan had smoothed his "rough patch" by "dealing with it swiftly...