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Tower, John Goodwin

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Tower, John Goodwin (1925–1991)

US Republican politician, a senator for Texas 1961–83. Despite having been a paid arms-industry consultant, he was selected in 1989 by President Bush to serve as defence secretary, but the Senate refused to approve the appointment because of Tower's previous heavy drinking.

Tower, in 1961 the first Republican to be elected senator for Texas, emerged as a military expert in the Senate, becoming chair of the Armed Services Committee in 1981. After his retirement from the Senate in 1983, he acted as a consultant to arms manufacturers and chaired the 1986–87 Tower Commission, which investigated aspects of the Irangate arms-for-hostages scandal.



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