CBS Evening News - 1992-12-24
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[0:03] The ghost of Iran contra past lives on
[0:06] for President George Bush. A Christmas
[0:08] Eve pardon for six key players of the
[0:10] Reagan administration. In Little Rock,
[0:12] our next president rounds out the most
[0:14] diverse cabinet in American history,
[0:16] including the first ever woman attorney
[0:18] general. And I in America tonight, what
[0:22] do we believe? An update on faith, hope,
[0:25] and miracles.
[0:34] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:40] Good evening. I'm Jazelle Fernandez
[0:42] sitting in tonight for Dan Rather. With
[0:44] less than a month to go in office,
[0:45] President Bush today used his
[0:47] presidential power to pardon six key
[0:49] figures in the Iran Contra scandal. It
[0:51] was the most dramatic use of that power
[0:53] since Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon
[0:55] in 1974. Eric Angberg has our report.
[1:00] >> A set of Christmas Eve Iran contra
[1:02] pardons that will derail two criminal
[1:04] trials was ordered by President Bush
[1:06] after he left Washington for his Camp
[1:08] David retreat. The top White House
[1:11] priority was clearly the pardon given to
[1:13] Casper Weinberger, defense secretary
[1:16] under Reagan, who had been due to go on
[1:18] trial in 11 days on charges he withheld
[1:21] information from Congress about arm
[1:23] sales to Iran. Another pardon to ex CIA
[1:27] spymaster Dwayne Clarage will cancel his
[1:30] trial for perjury. Robert McFarland and
[1:33] Elliot Abrams, two senior foreign policy
[1:35] officials convicted of wrongdoing, also
[1:38] received pardons, as did CIA officials
[1:41] Alan Fiers and Claire George. The
[1:43] outgoing president called Weinberger a
[1:46] true American patriot and said the
[1:48] common denominator for the other five,