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...Defense Secretary Dick Cheney felt that the anti-Saddam coalition was shaky and believed that Congress was not prepared to authorize the use of force on short notice. According to Woodward, Cheney also thought the White House's handling of last year's budget negotiations with Congress was "inept" and "raised fundamental questions about whether Bush and the Cabinet knew what they were doing...
Most Americans know that General H. Norman Schwarzkopf recently gave a television interview in which he recalled recommending a longer ground offensive. The very next day, President Bush and Defense Secretary Richard Cheney insisted that Schwarzkopf had agreed with the president's decision...
During the climactic hours of the gulf war, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was briefing President Bush on the strategy of the ground assault. There was no map of the Middle East war zone readily available in the White House family quarters for Cheney to refer to. "Oh, I have a map," responded the President. He reached over and spread out the one appearing in that week's issue of TIME...
...Maryland are trying to save the Navy's possibly obsolescent F-14 fighter, even though the Pentagon warns that will mean cutting production of more versatile F/A-18 fighter-bombers. The Apache, the Bradley, and the M1A1 Abrams may also escape the knife wielded by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. He wants to stop their production as part of a drive to slash defense spending by 1996 to 34% under that...
...Powell, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Bob Gates, now Scowcroft's deputy, were not directly touched by Ford, but his special brotherhood took them in as they moved through the Reagan years. Of the six men named above, one is President, and three others -- Baker, Cheney and Powell -- are possible successors to Bush. If that does not quite constitute a presidential culture, it stands as an impressive legacy from a man we sometimes forget, Jerry Ford...