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March 8, 1987:<br />

In light of the Iran-Contra scandal, President Reagan called on <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> to reconvene<br />

his Terrorism Task Force to evaluate the current program!<br />

June 2, 1987:<br />

<strong>Bush</strong> summarized his findings in a press release: `` [O]ur current policy as articulated in<br />

the Task Force report is sound, effective, and fully in accord with our democratic<br />

principles, and national ideals of freedom. ''@s8@s7<br />

November 13, 1987:<br />

<strong>The</strong> designated congressional committees filed their joint report on the Iran-Contra affair.<br />

Wyoming Representative Richard Cheney, the senior Republican member of the House<br />

Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, helped steer the<br />

joint committees to an impotent result. <strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> was totally exonerated, and was<br />

hardly mentioned.<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>, when President, rewarded Dick Cheney by appointing him U.S. Secretary<br />

of Defense, after the Senate refused to confirm John Tower.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Mortification of the U.S. Congress<br />

January 20, 1989:<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> was inaugurated President of the United States.<br />

May 12, 1989:<br />

President <strong>Bush</strong>'s nomination of Donald Gregg to be U.S. ambassador to Korea was<br />

considered in hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<br />

Gregg was now famous in Washington as <strong>Bush</strong>'s day-to-day controller of the criminal<br />

gun-running into Central America. Before the Gregg hearings began, both Republican<br />

and Democratic Senators on the committee tried to get President <strong>Bush</strong> to withdraw the<br />

Gregg nomination. This was to save them the embarrassment of confirming Gregg,<br />

knowing they were too intimidated to stop him.<br />

What follows are excerpts from the typed transcript of the Gregg hearings. <strong>The</strong> transcript<br />

has never been reproduced, it has not been printed, and it will not be published by the<br />

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is evidently embarrassed by its<br />

contents.@s8@s8<br />

Gregg: [As] his national security adviser [for] six and a half years ... I worked closely with the<br />

Vice President keeping him informed as best I could on matters of foreign policy, defense, and<br />

intelligence.... Travelling with the Vice President as I did ... [in] a great variety of missions to

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