Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
Iran-Contra: The Mystery Solved
By Theodore H. Draper
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State
by George P. Shultz
Scribner's, 1,184 pp., $30.00
Fourth Interim Report to Congress
by Lawrence E. Walsh. Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters
With Reagan: The Inside Story
by Edwin Meese III
Regnery Gateway, 362 pp., $24.95
Like Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger strongly opposed the policy of trading arms for hostages when that policy came up for discussion on December 7, 1985, and January 7, 1986. Afterward, however, Weinberger took a different path. As in the case of Shultz, but in his own way, Weinberger raises a peculiarly American problem.
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