Talk:Robert McFarlane (American government official)

E-mail question

how could he have shot off an email in 1986?

That's what I was wondering

Because the government had a rudimentary e-mail system at the time. ~ (The Rebel At) ~ 14:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Here's the timeline on email introduction in the White House from the National Security Archives at George Washington University, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/white_house_email/index.html:

1982- The National Security Council (NSC) staff at the White House acquires a prototype electronic mail system, from IBM, called the Professional Office System (PROFs).

April 1985- The PROFs e-mail system becomes fully operational within the NSC, including not only the full staff, but also home terminals for the National Security Adviser, Robert "Bud" McFarlane, and his deputy, Admiral John M. Poindexter.

SCGC (talk) 02:17, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Iran-Contra role

I'm concerned at the lack of information in this article, especially regarding his role in Iran-Contra. There is no mention of his connection Oliver North nor to his testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Does anyone care to expand this article? ~ (Bellfazar) ~

There also doesn't appear to be any noteworthy information outside of his Iran-Contra role. Quote is unattributed.

Reference

A reference was pulled out from inline and placed at the bottom. While this is (barely) tolerable for a new article, why can't the reference be used multiple times on various sentences? Future additions can use their own footnotes. Inline footnotes are vastly more credible. It looks like someone actually tried. Ending references sound like the editor is just fobbing us off. "Try this. If this doesn't work, it must be something else or else it was placed in there after I wrote the original." Student7 (talk) 22:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

NPOV Issues

User:Robert Carl McFarlane has suggested that the article unfairly focuses on only the negative aspects of Iran Contra issues and neglects other aspects and impacts that McFarlane has been involved in. For more specifics of the users concern see [1] Active Banana (^bananaphone 16:54, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I restored a few factual revisions and a clause about the subject's suicide attempt from user:rcmcfarlane's earlier edits (which were reverted en masse). –SJ+ 09:56, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

It appears to me that much of the material that was summarily axed was an attempt to flesh out details for readers like me who, for example haven't a clue what the Iran Contra scandal was. I'm posting a message at the US policy wikiproject to hopefully bring in an interested editor to expand the article. --Danger (talk) 03:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

External link to interview on nuclear policy?

Would an interview with Robert C. McFarlane from 1987 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6CADA24238544B6FA8556E30E81549C5 (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 15:10, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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