The Tower Commission Report
Report
By: John Tower, Edmund Muskie, and Brent Scowcroft
Date: February 26, 1987
Source: Tower, John, et al. The Tower Commission Report. New York: Random House, February 1987.
About the Author: John Tower (1925–1991) was born in Houston, Texas. In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific theater in World War II (1939–1945) until 1946. He was a 1953 graduate of Southern Methodist University, and in 1961, Tower became the youngest man ever to become a U.S. senator at age thirty-six. Tower was appointed chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee in 1981. He retired from public office in 1984, and worked as a defense consultant.
Introduction
In 1979, leftist rebels in Nicaragua ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza. The new, popularly elected Sandinista government held a Marxist ideology, and the Russians and Cubans...
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