| 1984: | The Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejects the nomination of Leslie Lenkowsky, nominated by the White House to be deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency, because of his involvement in blacklisting of prominent non-conservative Americans from the USIA's overseas speaking program, and later denials of this. |
| 1987: | Reagan now claims that diverting money to the Contras "was my idea to begin with." Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater is asked about the conflict between this statement and Reagan's earlier claims to have been ignorant of the whole thing. "They're going to stay in conflict," he replies. |
| 1987: | Senator Howell Heflin, thinking that this has already been in the news, states that Fawn Hall smuggled secret documents out of the White House in her brassiere. The story, which Hall angrily denies, is never supported. |