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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:27:04 EST
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- From: K=A*T <MEC038@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Subject: Re: well, pardon me!, Version 5
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 30 Dec 1992 08:42:40 PST from <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
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- From: Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
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- >> One additional point: over the weekend Weinberger said that when he said
- >> that the deal was illegal, he didn't know that the President had
- >> secretly issued a "Finding" basically allowing such a transaction.
-
- >> --KAT
-
- > OK. But my point was not that Weinberger said what was being done was
- > illegal. My point is that that President Reagan said specifically that
- > given a choice between doing something illegal and not doing anything
- > about the hostages, he would choose the illegality. Further, according
- > to Weinberger's note, at that particular meeting, Reagan agreed that
- > what he was doing was illegal.
-
- > Jonathan
-
- Well, I don't want to defend Reagan, necessarily, but: 1) I think
- what you say Reagan said probabely is a paraphrase rather than a
- direct quote. 2) Reagan might have said that to Weinberger not
- because he really believed what he did was illegal rather that he
- had to say that to keep the "Finding" secret from Weinberger. Over
- the weekend Weinberger said that Reagan kept him in the dark on a
- lot of issues related to that particular deal.
-
- --KAT
-