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...remold the image, Quayle would have to be seen, first as an effective inside player and outside spokesman. With encouragement from Bush and White House chief of staff John Sununu, Quayle became a voluble participant in strategy sessions. He lined up with Sununu and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for instance, to support a relatively high budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Then it was Quayle who laid out in a major speech the Administration's line...
...What if the European environment changes so radically that there are no longer any nuclear weapons on the Continent at all? Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said it would be almost impossible to keep 326,000 U.S. forces in a denuclearized Europe. As the saying goes, "No nukes, no troops." Do you agree with Cheney...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney went further, asserting in a TV interview that "if I had to guess today, I would guess that ((Gorbachev)) would ultimately fail . . . to reform the Soviet economy" and "when that happens, he's likely to be replaced by somebody who will be far more hostile . . . toward the West." In an interview with TIME, an irritated Shevardnadze responded by calling Cheney's statement "incompetent." Bush and Baker promptly disassociated themselves from Cheney's remarks; both stressed that the U.S. wants to see perestroika succeed. In fact, the Gates-Cheney skepticism about Gorbachev's prospects have more...
...What do you think of U.S. Defense Secretary Cheney's public expression of doubt about perestroika and of his speculation that Gorbachev may be replaced by a leader less friendly to the West...
Republican strategists were breathing a little easier last week after state legislator Craig Thomas won a special election in Wyoming, called to fill the congressional seat vacated by Dick Cheney when he became Secretary of Defense. In two prior contests to fill House vacancies that had cropped up since George Bush won the White House, the G.O.P. had come up embarrassingly empty-handed...