Iran-Contra HearingsVideotapes 1987

Weinberger, Caspar W.

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U.S. secretary of defense; U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare; California state legislator; lawyer; journalist; and business executive. Full name: Caspar Willard Weinberger. Born 1917; died 2006. From the description of Caspar W. Weinberger papers, 1910-2005 (bulk 1951-2005). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009624 ...

North, Oliver S. (Oliver Sherman), 1917-

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McFarlane, Robert C.

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Meese, Edwin, 1931-

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Edwin Meese (b. 1931), also known as Edmund Meese, was born in Oakland, California. He served as the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States from 1985 to 1988. In 1953, Meese graduated from Yale University, and holds a law degree from the University of California. He worked as assistant district attorney of Alameda County, California before joining Governor Ronald Reagan's staff in 1967. Meese was legal affairs secretary from 1967 to o 1968 and as executive assistant and chief of sta...

Weinberger, Caspar

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North, Oliver

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Regan, Donald T.

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U.S. secretary of the treasury, White House chief of staff, and financier. From the description of Papers, 1919-1993 (bulk 1981-1987). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149624 U.S. secretary of the treasury, White House chief of staff, and financier. Born 1918; died 2003. From the description of Papers of Donald T. Regan, 1919-1993 (bulk 1981-1987). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072556 Biographical Note ...

Schultz, George Pratt, 1920-

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Poindexter, John M.

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Iran-Contra

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A political scandal of the late 1980s, the Iran-Contra affair involved the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with some of the profits being channeled to Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries known as the Contras. Over 41 days in the summer of 1987, televised hearings of a joint Congressional committee investigated Iran-Contra and heard testimonies from 28 witnesses, including Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Reagan Chief of Staff Donald Regan, Secretary of State George Schultz...