MOYNIHAN TO REAGAN; OUT WITH ALL THE MALEFACTORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 30, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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there are only 537 persons in t is cap
were elected by the people and sent here to gov-
ern. This is the moment of truth. The issue is not
that difficult.
For some years now, presidents have been
coming to the Congress asking for additional
staff resources under their personal direction.
The National Security Council staff is an exam-
ple, created in 1947 to assist you as presiding
officer of the council. It is responsible to you and,
in all truth, to no one else. It is there to help you.
Congress put it there. This is the essential fact.
In doing so, we chose to trust the president to
use the help wisely. It was unthinkable in 1944
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and it is unthinkable today that the staff
National Security Council would commence to
Moynihan to Reagan: `Out With All the Malefactors'
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Associated Press
The statement on Iran yesterday by Sen. Daniel
Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) in the_Xmocratic
ptr,ty'rweekly radio address:
Fellow Americans, good afternoon. This is
Sen. Moynihan of New York. I've been asked to
deliver what has become known as the Demo-
cratic response to the president's weekly radio
broadcast. And fdr certain, I am a Democrat and
yet I was also a member of the Cabinet of Pres-
ident Reagan's two immediate
And it is in somewhat that role that I
would speak today. to the
This is no occasion on which to respond president. This is a time to talk with him. Mr.
President, I listened to you at noon. I pray you
are listening to me now. Your presidency, sir, is
tottering. It can be saved, but only you can save
it and only if you will talk with us, the Congress.
Washington is awash with rumor, intrigue,
treachery. Out there in the Santa Ynez Moun-
tains, you can't know how bad it is, for you've
never been through anything like it. I have. I tell
you, it is deeply dangerous. Mind, we do not yet
have a constitutional crisis and as yet, there is
not an international crisis. But either or both
could come unless you act and act now.
Laws have been broken, that must be as-
sumed. Men have betrayed your trust. Very
well, let it all come out, in the open with greater
than deliberate speed, immediately, regardless.
You've made one excellent move. The FBI is on
the case. They will carry out an investigation by
the hook. They will get the facts and why not tell
them, this minute and in public, to get them all.
But it can't stop at that. There is an institu-
tional crisis between the executive branch and
the legislative branch which has to be resolved.
Staff can't do it for you; staff can't do it for us.
This is one of those moments when the most
important fact to know about Washington is that
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ith secret agencies in other agencies. We gave
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you the staff to help you direct the other depart-
ments, not to evade or undermine them, not to
roam about the world setting off wars, revolu-
tions, panic, pandemonium and, most emphatic-
ally and fundamentally, Mr. President, not to
break the laws Congress has enacted.
For in the end, that undermines you, you who
are responsible for executing the laws. This na-
tion does not want and does not need another
destroyed presidency. And so I plead, Mr. Pres-
ident, clean house, out with all the facts, out with
all the malefactors. Come to the Hill and talk,
elected' official to elected official. We are your
friends. We share this brief of sacred authority
given by the American people. We want you to
save your presidency, our presidency, and as you
would say, thank you and God bless you.
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