Volume 34, Number 9 · May 28, 1987
The Great Pretender
By Stanley Hoffmann
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home
by Garry Wills
Doubleday, 472 pp., $19.95
The Tower Commission report deals rather gently with the President's performance in the Iran-contra affair.[1] It does not speculate about what he knew concerning the supply of weapons to the contras during the period when Congress had cut off military assistance—even though the appendixes suggest he realized that efforts were being made. In the case of Iran, the report notes that 'in his obvious commitment' to securing the release of the hostages,
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