Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration.

Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall, on August 27 in Virginia, according to a copy of the marriage certificate obtained by CNN.

Reached by phone Tuesday morning, North declined to comment, apart from quoting a line famously delivered by Clark Gable’s character in “Gone with the Wind.”

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” he told CNN.

North, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, was a National Security Council staffer when he gained attention for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. North was part of the twin schemes to sell weapons to Iran and then use proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels, kn

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