Reagan, Iran, Contras and Breaching the Public Trust
Let me sort this out:
Ronald Reagan didn’t know.
Donald Regan didn’t know.
William Casey didn’t know.
Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, there was a political party known as the Know Nothings--because they professed to know nothing about unseemly activities attributed to them.
Who could have guessed that the Know Nothings would be running this country in 1986?
GEORGE KISEDA
Los Angeles
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