But the Iran-Contra scandal - revelations that the US had been covertly selling arms to Iran in the hope of securing the release of hostages held in Lebanon - caused friction between the US and Baghdad.
Gates was CIA's number two, and the Iran-Contra deal and the ensuing scandal could have been a career-ender.
And the disasters are etched deep in the public (or at least journalistic) memory: the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, for example, or the Iran-contra affair in the 1980s.
Libby is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra affair, although he has maintained his innocence.
He went on to win a smashing re-election in 1984, survived the Iran-Contra scandal in his second term and closed out his presidency on a wave of popularity that allowed him to help turn the White House over to his vice president, George H.
When the Iran-Contra probe produced its report in 1987, Cheney's staff helped write the dissenting minority report.
Reagan sounds genuinely surprised in his diary about the Iran-contra mess, in which his people sold weapons to Iran and then sent some of the money to the contras, the rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.
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And--contra those who are saying that the GOP now has to move left--they didn't win by getting more liberal.
In similar fashion, Ronald Reagan's second term ran aground when the Iran-Contra scandal exploded in late 1986.
Later, as a U.S. House member from Wyoming, Cheney was part of the congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Oliver North was found guilty in the investigations into the Iran-Contra affair.
W. Bush endorsed Reaganism, but distanced himself from the Iran-Contra affair.
Congress has been wary of giving witnesses immunity ever since an appellate court in 1990 threw out the conviction of Oliver North in the Iran-contra scandal.
If he agrees to back Sharon, President Bush could find himself in a situation remarkably similar to that faced by President Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Kenneth Duberstein, who was chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan after the Iran-Contra scandal, says Mr. Obama is suffering from a deficit of good relationships in Congress.
The Arizona senator, who often mentions his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam era, graduated from the Academy in 1958 along with John Poindexter and Robert "Bud" McFarlane, two consecutive national security advisers under President Reagan who played a role in the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1989, in Nicaragua, President Ortega ended a 19-month ceasefire with the Contra rebels because of continued U.S. support for them.
And he was the attorney for Iran-Contra figure Fawn Hall, Oliver North's secretary.
Meanwhile, the San Jose Mercury News was left out of the year-to-year comparison because its 2010 figure represents the absorption of the Contra Costa Times and several other smaller papers.
Other dark pools may show symbol and side, send single or market-wide IOIs or set criteria such as minimum participation requirements so that when an IOI message is distributed either to a single contra-side or a marketplace, there are ways of "reading" into the order information.
"The Bush Dyslexicon" has been endorsed by some Republicans, including Judge Lawrence Walsh, who was the independent counsel in the Iran Contra hearings, and Ariana Huffington who has certainly been no supporter of Clinton-Gore.
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