The first politician I heard say he was "out of the loop" was George H.S. Bush.* During the Reagan administration, there was a program called the "Iran-Contra" affair. This affair illegally planned to ship arms to Iran even though such transactions were embargoed.** It occurred during the second term of Ronald Reagan when Bush was the vice president.
Well, now the Trump administration has gotten into the act over the Russians paying Taliban members to kill American soldiers. Trump claims he was never briefed on this scandal though, clearly, he was.***
So President Trump is the latest politician to claiming he was "out of the loop."
* https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674079779/george-h-w-bushs-mixed-legacy-in-a-reagan-era-scandal
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affai
*** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-defensive-over-reports-russia-paid-bounties-for-killing-u-s-troops/ar-BB166A9qr
About Me
- Everett Estes Ford
- Sandhills Area, NC, United States
- Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, the author is a published poet and author of the monograph "Lead Isotopes." He received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and a D.Sci. (Honorus causa) from the University of Missouri in 1989. As a scientist, he published more than 100 technical papers in the areas of isotope geology, mineral resources, and environmental concerns. He was involved in the Apollo Program and post Apollo Program in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the National Acid Precipitation Program with the National Park Service in the 1980s. He was the first Western scientist to give the Vernadsky Memorial Lecture in Moscow during detente in 1976. He worked for 34 years for the U.S. Geological Survey in a variety of research and administrative positions, including tours as Chief of the Branch of Isotope Geology and as the Assistant Director of Research. He was president of the Geochemical Society, and, as an amateur tennis player, he served as President of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Golden Racquets Tennis Club for two years.
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