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Philip Taubman is a lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Before joining CISAC, Taubman worked at the New York Times as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years. He is the author of The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (2012); Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage (2003); and In The Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz (2023).

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How Reagan Convinced Himself He Sold No Arms for Hostages

buying his own baloney

As the Iran-Contra scandal threatened to sink the Reagan administration, the president inhabited an alternate reality of his own making.

Philip Taubman | Published Jan 28, 2023

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