Iran-contra

In 1987, Democrats picked him to lead the Iran-contra hearings, the highest-profile investigation in the Senate since Watergate, and was talked about as a likely successor to Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who, in exchange for Inouye's support in 1987, offered to step aside and make room for Inouye in 1989.

In history of Hawaiian leaders, Daniel Inouye stands alone Jason Horowitz 2010

Reagan's distress over Buckley's ordeal in particular, and over the fate of other American captives, was a factor behind the Iran-contra affair.

30 years later, Iran still holds us hostage Ted Koppel 2011

It would be unfair and biased to have students reading about Iran-contra when another guy named Bush is a presidential candidate, after all …

Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Beck Denounces Civil Rights Activist John Lewis For Comparing Himself to Civil Rights Activist John Lewis 2010

Oh, and while Clinton might have equivocated in the past voice now and then, Ronald Reagan gave the most famous example of Presidential passive voice in saying saying “mistakes were made” (about Iran-contra).

The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010

After four days of testimony before a congressional hearing investigating the Iran-contra controversy, Lt.Col. Oliver L. North proved - at least to his colleagues - that he was a good marine following his orders.

Arthur Beach 2010

But liberal leaders of the Senate had expected Inouye to punish and embarrass President Ronald Reagan during the Iran-contra hearings and considered Inouye's respectful posture a bust.

In history of Hawaiian leaders, Daniel Inouye stands alone Jason Horowitz 2010

Instead, there were controversies (the Iran-contra scandal) and crises (the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 service members), disappointments (the explosion of the shuttle Challenger) and disappointments (the breakdown of the summit with the Soviets in Reykjavik).

Reagan at 100 casts shadow over Republican Party Dan Balz 2011

Mr. Kimche was Israel's point man in the Iran-contra affair, in which Washington authorized Israel to sell U.S. weapons to Iran in violation of an international embargo.

Ex-Mossad Spy David Kimche Dies 2010

Air Force colonel tied to the Iran-contra affairs allegedly conspired with an Israeli aeronautics engineer to illegally export 2,000 AK-47s to Somalia.

Did the Supreme Court put some federal jobs at risk? 2010

Even the old-line, establishment Council on Foreign Relations, the embodiment of those values — diplomacy, moderation, respectability — the neocons so abhor, now shelters two of them: the military historian Max Boot and Elliott Abrams, the former Reagan and George W. Bush administration official convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-contra scandal.

The Return of the Neocons 2010