A Perfect Candidate

Opening with news and context from 1986, President Reagan, various journalists, the main subject Oliver North, also Donald Regan, George Shultz, John Poindexter, Senators Kerry and Inouye, in the documentary by R. J. Cutler and David Van Taylor, A Perfect Candidate, 1996.

From the documentary on Oliver North’s 1994 campaign to become U.S. Senator from Virginia, with consultants, a promotional film, and an early speech by the candidate, the central figure from the Iran-Contra scandal of 1986, in A Perfect Candidate, 1996.