I think it is very important for the American People to understand that this is a dangerous world, that we live at risk and that this nation is at risk in a dangerous world, and that they ought not to be led to believe as a conflict. Once of these hearings that this nation cannot or should not conduct covert operations. And thanks for joining us for American History. Tvs Congress Investigate series, which looks back at significant congressional investigations. This week, the irancontra investigation. Of 1987. Joining us, jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend, in a nutshell. What was the irancontra affair and how did it begin . Well, the irancontra affair was a scandal that erupted in 1986, 87. Under the Reagan Administration involving and really com collects web of activity centered around an effort by the Reagan Administration to provide aid to the nicaraguan contras who were rebels, who were trying to overthrow a socialist government in
Risk in a dangerous world, and that they ought not to be led to believe as a conflict. Once of these hearings that this nation cannot or should not conduct covert operations. And thanks for joining us for American History. Tvs Congress Investigate series, which looks back at significant congressional investigations. This week, the irancontra investigation. Of 1987. Joining us, jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend, in a nutshell. What was the irancontra affair and how did it begin . Well, the irancontra affair was a scandal that erupted in 1986, 87. Under the Reagan Administration involving and really com collects web of activity centered around an effort by the Reagan Administration to provide aid to the nicaraguan contras who were rebels, who were trying to overthrow a socialist government in nicaragua. The reagan ministration was devoted to trying to concern about what they thought would be soviet influence coming in to Central America
I think it is very important for the American People to understand that this is a dangerous world, that we live at risk and that this nation is at risk in a dangerous world, and that they ought not to be led to believe as a conflict. Once of these hearings that this nation cannot or should not conduct covert operations. And thanks for joining us for American History. Tvs Congress Investigate series, which looks back at significant congressional investigations. This week, the irancontra investigation. Of 1987. Joining us, jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend, in a nutshell. What was the irancontra affair and how did it begin . Well, the irancontra affair was a scandal that erupted in 1986, 87. Under the Reagan Administration involving and really com collects web of activity centered around an effort by the Reagan Administration to provide aid to the nicaraguan contras who were rebels, who were trying to overthrow a socialist government in
I think it is very important for the American People to understand that this is a dangerous world, that we live at risk and that this nation is at risk in a dangerous world, and that they ought not to be led to believe as a conflict. Once of these hearings that this nation cannot or should not conduct covert operations. And thanks for joining us for American History. Tvs Congress Investigate series, which looks back at significant congressional investigations. This week, the irancontra investigation. Of 1987. Joining us, jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend, in a nutshell. What was the irancontra affair and how did it begin . Well, the irancontra affair was a scandal that erupted in 1986, 87. Under the Reagan Administration involving and really com collects web of activity centered around an effort by the Reagan Administration to provide aid to the nicaraguan contras who were rebels, who were trying to overthrow a socialist government in
I was telling my kids about this conference yesterday and they were reminding me of the movie back to the future and that wonderful moment where marty mcfly is talking to the scientist professor and he asked him something about the future. And he said in the future, Ronald Reagan will be president. He said, the movie actor . That is crazy. Our politics have changed. We have a wonderful panel here, for superb, exciting papers that do fit together, it will be my job to talk about that in the discussion. What we will do it is each speaker will present for 1315 minutes, 15 minutes maximum, i will cut them off at that point. I will then give comments for 56 minutes and we will open it up for discussion from the entire audience. Id know we have a lot of experts in the audience who will have a lot to offer. I will introduce the four panelists right now and we will go in order. Seated immediately to my right we have fritz bartel, finishing as we speak his dissertation at cornell university. Hi