Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats' move was seen as primarily aneffort to focus attention on the administration'sinability to account for more than 10 milliondollars in previous aid money, an issue alreadyraised by last week's Tower commission report onthe Iran-Contra affair as well as by congressionalinvestigators...
...added that although he was not prominentlymentioned in the Tower commission report, whichwas critical of Reagan's management style, "I'mcatching the dickens" for failing to stop theinitiative
...remarks before addressing the Harvard Model Congress yesterday. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 blasted the Tower Commission report saying its conclusions about his participation in the Iran-contra affair were "completely wrong." Weinberger also said that he and Secretary of State George F. Shultz repeatedly advised President Reagan to abandon the arms-for-hostages policy...
Kennedy, who was not associated with the Tower Commission, said that all of the case studies used preparing the report explore "how organizations dealt with important issues of managing national security." He added that "the Kennedy School is academically concerned with how elected officials should handle [issues] in situations like that...
...Kennedy School uses different versions of some of the case studies used by the Tower Report in courses taught at Harvard, said Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer professor of public administration and a leading expert on the presidency...