David Stout, writing in the New York Times for December 5, asserts that "Rep Henry J Hyde, chairman of House Judiciary Committee, who has condemned lying under oath in uncompromising terms in the case of Pres Clinton, is reminded by White House that he saw things differently in 1987 when he was defending Reagan Administration in the Iran-contra affair," according to a summary of the article.

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