In 1980s, Defense Nominee Pushed to Bomb Nicaragua “Robert M. Gates, President Bush’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, advocated a bombing campaign against Nicaragua in 1984 in order to ‘bring down’ the leftist government, according to a declassified memo released by a nonprofit research group. . . .
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