Oliver North Master Crafter of the Political Lie | The Reagan Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to October 5, 1986 when an American plane went down as it was carrying arms to "Contra" guerrillas fighting the communist regime in Nicaragua and the lies about the Iran Contra affair flared up.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.
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| 0:49.9 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop Series 2, a podcast about the presidency. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation. |
| 0:58.9 | In July 7, 1987, a 43-year- old lieutenant colonel. |
| 1:02.6 | Oliver North raised his right hand before a select committee investigating the |
| 1:06.6 | Iran-Contra affair. |
| 1:08.8 | And the colonel promised to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The first big truth he told was that he was a liar. |
| 1:15.6 | I will tell you right now, counsel, and all the members here get that I misled the Congress. |
| 1:24.3 | The hearing, an attempt to get to the truth of the matter, what did President Ronald Reagan know? |
| 1:29.4 | Was there a cover-up? |
| 1:30.8 | Were laws broken? Turned into an epistemological and theoretical were around the |
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