Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 to 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as president from 1986 to 1990.
President Tolbert had become very authoritarian in later years
Doe with then Secretary of Defense of the United States Caspar W. Weinberger outside the Pentagon in 1982