of them were ultimately pardoned by reagan's successor, george h.w. bush. both watergate and iran-contra incidentally happened to be scandals from republican presidencies. but, you know, the investigations into those two scandals were not particularly partisan affairs. members of congress and the various people involved in the scandals didn't drop their party affiliations as soon as the scandal came to light. in both watergate and iran-contra those republican presidents in the end faced both democratic inquiz -- inquiz tors in congress. democrats and republicans challenged them on their involvement in the scandals. both democrats and republicans took an active role in the investigations. both democrats and republicans denounced those republican presidents in their