| 1984: | After Reagan defends his environmental record, a reporter asks him where Anne Burford, who resigned in disgrace and was recently re-hired for another environmental post, fits into that. Larry Speakes interrupts and turns off the lights. Reagan says, "My guardian says I can't talk." |
| 1987: | Manucher Ghorbanifar denies Oliver North's testimony that the two of them negotiated the Iran arms deal in a men's room. "This is the biggest joke I have ever heard in my life," he says. "I was never alone with him." (Many other claims made by North are reported to be exaggerated by the others involved. Long before North was famous, press secretary Larry Speakes told his staff "Take anything that guy gives you and divide it by three.") |
| 1987: | Ed Meese claims he did not violate any ethics laws, though the "appearence of impropriety" is clear to investigators. He says his failure to disclose certain financial assets was "inadvertent." |