The Iran-Contra Arms Deal A Reagan-Era Scandal

... 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 ... When the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration's first reaction was chilling: It appeared to treat the epidemic as a joke. Even after the whole world condemned Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons to kill over 5,000 Kurdish civilians in Iraq, the Reagan ... The controversies and scandals included attacks on the federal school lunch program and aid to the poor, anti-union tactics, the illegal sale of ... There is a tendency in the fervid national catharsis over the Iran arms scandal to treat the past six years of Ronald Reagan's presidency as ... While shipping arms to Iran violated the embargo, dealing with terrorists violated Reagan's campaign promise never to do so. Reagan had always been admired for ... The 1980s were a decade of scandals. The Iran-Contra Scandal proved that White House officials were willing to break the law to carry out their political agenda ... Reagan's last shutdown echoed the most controversial scandal of his career—the Iran-Contra Affair. In it, his administration illegally sold ... The three stars of the Tower Commission acquitted him of an Irangate cover-up on the discreet but unmistakable grounds that the old gentleman had not been told ... Several individuals in Ronald Reagan's administration were implicated in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Basically, money that had been obtained ...