resignation, Donald Regan said, There's been a deliberate leak, and it's been done to humiliate me. ''@s8@s5 George Bush, when President, rewarded the commission's chairman, Texas Senator John Tower, by appointing him U.S. Secretary of Defense. Tower was asked by a reporter at the National Press Club, whether his nomination was a payoff '' for the clean bill of health '' he gave Bush. Tower responded that the commission was made up of three
people, Brent Scowcroft and [Senator] Ed Muskie in addition to myself, that would be
sort of impugning the integrity of Brent Scowcroft and Ed Muskie.... We found nothing
to implicate the Vice President.... I wonder what kind of payoff they're going to get?
''@s8@s6 President Bush appointed Brent Scowcroft his chief national security adviser.
But the Senate refused to confirm Tower. Tower then wrote a book and began to talk
about the injustice done to him. He died April 5, 1991 in a plane crash.
March 8, 1987:In light of the Iran-Contra scandal, President Reagan called on George Bush to reconvene
his Terrorism Task Force to evaluate the current program!
June 2, 1987:Bush summarized his findings in a press release: `` [O]ur current policy as articulated in
the Task Force report is sound, effective, and fully in accord with our democratic
principles, and national ideals of freedom. ''@s8@s7
November 13, 1987:The designated congressional committees filed their joint report on the Iran-Contra affair.
Wyoming Representative Richard Cheney, the senior Republican member of the House
Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, helped steer the
joint committees to an impotent result. George Bush was totally exonerated, and was
hardly mentioned.
George Bush, when President, rewarded Dick Cheney by appointing him U.S. Secretary
of Defense, after the Senate refused to confirm John Tower.
The Mortification of the U.S. Congress
January 20, 1989:George Bush was inaugurated President of the United States.
May 12, 1989:President Bush's nomination of Donald Gregg to be U.S. ambassador to Korea was
considered in hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.