The Tower Commission Report Reagan's Iran-Contra Reckoning

This paper assesses the likelihood that the Iran-Contra scandal was shaped heavily by the effects of Ronald Reagan's cancer surgery in summer, 1985. The biggest scandal of the Reagan years, and the most significant constitutional crisis since Watergate, was the Iran-Contra affair. Reagan administration officials interceded on behalf of José Bueso Rosa, a Honduran general who was heavily involved with the CIA's contra operations and faced ... Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan, Ulysses S. Grant and Warren Harding were all tied to scandals involving aides or cabinet members. None of them faced ... A series of scandals happened during the later years of Reagan's presidency. The most important one, called Iran-Contra, involved illegal sales of weapons to ... While President Reagan has lost public esteem as a consequence of the Iran-. Contra arms scandal, so have other institutions, including the press. Favorability ... On November 17, 1981, President Reagan signed National Security Directive 17, authorizing provision of covert support to anti-Sandinista forces. On December 1, ... Trump also became the nation's first president (sitting or past) to be indicted on federal charges. He was momentarily placed in the custody of ... Nancy put pressure on hirings and (more often) firings. President Reagan himself was apparently far too nice to personally ever let anyone go. Reagan sold US weapons to Iran, and used the money to support a group trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Both were illegal. He was ...