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Some highlights from President Reagan’s March 19, 1987 press conference, at which he finally answered questions that had built up in the four months since the Iran-contra scandal broke:

“… I don’t know … I don’t know … I don’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was … I did not know at that time that there was any money involved. I only knew that … All we’d learned … Helen, I don’t know. I only know that … All that I know … Sam, all I know is that … I can’t remember … There are other people that don’t remember either … I did not know that I had said it in such a way … I didn’t realize that I had said that … We didn’t know … I didn’t know how far we could go … I still do not have the answer … It was a complete surprise to me … We’re still waiting for that to be explained … I don’t know … I don’t know …”

Excerpted from the “Reagan Centennial Edition” of my 1989 book The Clothes Have No Emperor, available here as an enhanced eBook.