who was president during the iran-contra scandal?
The Iran-Contra Affair, or âIrangate,â may not have happened were it not for the political climate in the early 1980s. President Ronald Reagan, who won the White House in 1980, wasnât able to maintain the momentum for his Republican colleagues, and the GOP was swept from the majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives in the 1982 mid-term elections.