Accommodating Decline: Half The Country Doesn't Think Watergate A Real Scandal

 

Half the country doesn't think Watergate was a real scandal?! Why?

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Watergate Scandal

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

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This is an opportune moment to review Reagan's "Iran-Contra Scandal"

in which Ronald Reagan's senior administration officials conspired to sell weapons to the same Iranian mullahs who held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

Iran-Contra Scandal

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Contra_Scandal

In brief, The Iran–Contra affair,, also referred to as Irangate,^[1] Contragate^[2] or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms toIran, the subject of an arms embargo.^[3] Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of several hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.