The coming year promises to be a true test in the hallways of power.
“Hail to the chief
Dick Cheney’s mission to expand — or ‘restore’ –the powers of the presidencyBy Charlie Savage, BOSTON Globe Staff | November 26, 2006
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — In July 1987, then-Representative Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim.
President Reagan and his top aides, he asserted, were free to ignore a 1982 law at the center of the scandal. Known as the Boland Amendment, it banned US assistance to anti-Marxist militants in Nicaragua.”
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