1986: The Iran-Contra Scandal

Andres Oppenheimer '78

Andres Oppenheimer and colleagues at the Miami Herald sparked a global conversation on American executive power and arms deals with their Pulitzer Prize-winning uncovering of the scandal in which members of the Reagan administration, in secret defiance of Congress, sold arms to Iran and diverted the profits to Nicaraguan rebels. 

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