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Who'll Break the Colonel's Spell?

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870712
Author:MARY McGRORY

FOR SEVERAL hours on Thursday morning, the House Republican loyalists on the Iran-Contra committee and their lone Senate brother, Orrin Hatch, thought they had died and gone to heaven.

At last, after six weeks of purgatory with assorted second-raters and shady operators telling lies, they had found a Moses in uniform, a Marine who was equal parts Booth Tarkington impish adolescent and James Bond fearless agent. Mary McGrory is a Washington Post columnist.

Oliver North, the cutest colonel the country ever saw, had transformed himself into the "national hero" of Ronald Reagan's original, ...

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