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...pivotal moment in Cheney-lore, he caught the attention of Donald Rumsfeld, future chief of staff and Defense Secretary for Gerald Ford, when Rumsfeld asked Steiger to help him reorganize the Office of Economic Opportunity for Nixon. As Steiger's aide, Cheney wrote a precocious 12-page memo outlining how the place should be run. Rumsfeld, impressed, brought him into the agency and, after Nixon resigned, to the Ford White House. When Rumsfeld, by then Ford's chief of staff, was tapped for Defense chief, Cheney, despite his youth, was the obvious candidate to step into his mentor...
This is what a leaked memo from the Blair camp to the Gore camp might look like...
...plugged in. But the clincher was this: instead of looking like just another annoying yuppie yapping on my cell phone for all the world to hear, I could discreetly type messages in silence. People around me could see I was typing something, but who knew if it was a memo to the President or a reminder to buy toilet paper at the corner drugstore...
...conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield dead in Korea. But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths--largely due to accidents or disease--occurred in Korea. That yields the new, revised U.S. death count for the war. In a rare example of interservice cooperation, a Pentagon memo notes, "All service historian offices have been advised...and are in agreement with the revision...
...mastered the fine art of squeezing one simple idea into a 30-page memo," she quipped...