The Nation - News from Feb. 26, 1989
Attacking Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) and the news media, and preaching patriotism and support for the Nicaraguan Contras, former White House aide Oliver L. North got a resounding reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. “It is a rare thing for me to get to speak at all in Washington without a subpoena,” North quipped, and said he preferred to talk about the “profound impact” conservatives can have. North chided American intellectual, media and political elites, who he said “have somehow found that that godless and alien philosophy called communism is no longer anathema.” After North left, buckets were passed to collect money for his defense fund.
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