
Entry 004Nov 13, 1986
“We did not—repeat—did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we.”4
4President Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, Address to the Nation, Oval Office, November 13, 1986. Source
Why it’s on the record. On March 4, 1987, after the Tower Commission report, he told the nation: 'A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.'
On the record
Reagan went on TV to deny reports that the U.S. had sold arms to Iran to free American hostages in Lebanon.
- Said by
- President Ronald Reagan, President of the United States
- Where
- Address to the Nation, Oval Office
- When
- Nov 13, 1986
- Source
- Address to the Nation, Oval Office, November 13, 1986