Good morning, it’s Thursday, January 17, 2019. Thirty-three years ago today, Ronald Reagan made an entry in his diary that, considering the disaster it set in motion, was remarkably brief, and surprisingly candid. After mentioning meetings with an Italian political leader and a group of conservative state legislators, the 40th U.S. president wrote this:
“Only thing waiting was N.S.C. wanting decisions on our effort to get our 5 hostages out of Lebanon. Involves selling TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran. I gave the go-ahead.”
Reagan, who was less than a month away from his 75th…
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