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...Dick Cheney is perhaps the only good thing to come out of the John Tower mess. The six-term Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed...
Just as important, he is an old friend of George Bush's -- a key asset in this presidency -- and has ties to two other Administration power centers. While serving as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in 1975 and '76, Cheney worked alongside Brent Scowcroft, then as now the National Security Adviser, as well as Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign...
...Obviously things have moved very quickly in the last 24 hours," Cheney said in referring to Bush's swift, overnight search for a replacement candidate for Tower. "I did agonize. It was not an easy decision...
...Cheney's name had not figured in any of the speculation that arose in the hours after Tower's rejection. But the nomination quickly drew praise from the Senate, which will vote on his confirmation...
...joint statement issued by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the Senate Armed Services committee chairman, and Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the committee's ranking Republican, the senators said Cheney "is well known and highly respected by the members of the Senate. We have worked with him on many issues involving national defense and intelligence matters...