The Iran-Contra Minority Redux

N A RECENT New York Times op-ed, "Mr. Cheney's Minority Report" (July 19), historian Sean Wilentz claimed that there was a direct connection between Oliver North, the Iran-Contra Committee's Republican minority led by then-Rep. Richard B. Cheney, and the current Administration's view of executive power. Wilentz correctly named me as principal drafter of the 1987 committee's minority report. Unfortunately, that's about all he got right.