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The most well-known and politically damaging of the scandals since Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair came to light in 1986 when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of a largely unsuccessful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon.
The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered around arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 to 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration.
Housing and Urban Development Scandal was a controversy concerning bribery by selected contractors for low income housing projects. [71] James G. Watt (R) United States Secretary of the Interior, was charged with 25 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice. Sentenced to five years' probation, fined $5,000 (equivalent to $9,998 in 2023) and ...
In the end, one conviction was overturned on a technicality, and President George H.W. Bush (Reagan’s vice president) issued six pardons to officials involved in the scandal. While Reagan was ...
On April 17, 1986, the Reagan administration released a three-page report stating that there were some Contra-cocaine connections in 1984 and 1985, and that these connections occurred at a time when the rebels were "particularly hard pressed for financial support" because aid from the United States had been cut off. [13]
Controversies related to the political administration of President Ronald Reagan (1981 – 1989). See also the preceding Category:Carter administration controversies and the succeeding Category:George H. W. Bush administration controversies
Debategate or briefing-gate was a political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan; it took place in the final days of the 1980 presidential election.Reagan's team acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers, classified top secret, [1] that Carter used in preparation for the October 28, 1980 debate with Reagan.
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., lit into the “weirdos” that he said are tearing the United States apart, in a fiery speech at the Reagan Foundation that connected the hyperbolic political debates of ...