Reagan's Foreign Policy A Legacy of Hawks and Doves

In the “Iran-Contra” scandal, Reagan's administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua's Contra guerilla fighters, in ... Though far from the only US president dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ... Ronald Reagan (1981-1989): Iran-Contra Scandal ... President Ronald Reagan had two major international dilemmas in the 1980s - militants were holding American ... Even after the whole world condemned Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons to kill over 5,000 Kurdish civilians in Iraq, the Reagan ... The Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon's presidency reaffirmed this belief. Upon the resignation of President Nixon, his vice presi- dent, Gerald Ford ... President Reagan's Iran-Contra Scandal ... For the longest time, Reagan and several other government officials tried to cover up their deals, which didn't work. The Iran-Contra affair, the most serious scandal of the Reagan administration, arose from the intersection of dubious or illegal U.S. efforts to deal with ... Public concern with "the politics of personal destruction" burst into the political spotlight during the 1980s after President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert ... ... This exposé broke the story that unleashed the greatest political scandal of Ronald Reagan's presidency and gave rise to one of the greatest challenges ... In March 1981, only two months after swearing the oath of office, President Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded by an assassin's bullet.