Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal, 1986

On this day, 1986, National Security Council staff member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, begin shredding documents that would have exposed their participation in a range of illegal activities regarding the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to a rebel Nicaraguan group.
On November 25, North was fired but Hall continued to sneak documents to him by stuffing them in her skirt and boots. The Iran-Contra scandal , as it came to be known, became an embarrassment and a sticky legal problem for the Reagan administration.

Hard to believe all of this was happening on Reagan's watch and he knew nothing about it.

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Fate leads him who follows it, drags him who resist. Plutarch