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Had to find funds outside the government or shut down. >> the constitution is clear that the power of the purse resides with congress. >> but that doesn't restrict the president or an administration from supporting private programs to carry out aspects of foreign policy that they feel are important. >> and in this case, when congress closed the purse and said no more money for the contra war, the reagan administration decided to look for other purses anywhere they could find them. >> oliver north was an enormously attractive personality, he worked nonstop. >> he worked quietly but fiercely and...

More than 50 delle grams of support. >> sock it to them. one couple even promised to name their next male child oliver. >> he was an actor in a role and he played it magnificently. >> i put great value on the lives of the american hostages. i worked hard to bring back as many as we could. >> a defiant north went even further. he implied the president understood every aspect of his operation, including the diverting of funds from iran to the contras. >> i sought approval of my superiors for every one of my actions. and it is well documented. i assumed that the president was aware of what i was ...

Was, tv ratings spiked when the committee called oliver north. >> he's got a full military uniform on, he's got the perfect haircut. he's got this swagger and bravado of a military man. >> do you solemnly swear that in the testimony you are about to give, will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> please be seated. >> he took the place by storm. >> i came here to tell you the truth. the good, the bad, and the ugly i'm here to tell it all. >> north was well-prepared, occasionally combative witness >> i would have offered the iranians a free trip to...

The united states has shipped weapons to iran. the united states undercut its allies and secretly violated. those charges are utterly false. >> he ob fuss skates and misrepresents what he notes. >> a lot of the american people just simply don't believe you. >> there was pandemonium. >> top officials of the reagan white house go into complete cover up mode. i mean destruction of evidence. >> north scrambled to destroy all documentation of his clandestine efforts. >> oliver north decides he was

Employment was on the rise and america was reclaiming her role as a beacon of progress and prosperity. the international stage was less than settled. and reagan's war in nicaragua continued. >> i spoken recently of the freedom fighters. you know who they are fighting and i am we cannot turn away from them. >> acting as the point of reagan's nicaraguan's spear, oliver north. north's clandestine operation was called the enterprise >> the enterprise was the entire network that he created to supplant the cia in running the contra war. >> since congress cut funding for the contras, the enterprise