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...ports. We hope that he makes good on his pledge, but recent history provides many reasons to doubt. When the Coast Guard reported that secure ports would cost nearly $1 billion, Bush responded with rhetoric about the importance of the Coast Guard to national security, but he failed to request a single dollar in either his 2003 or his 2004 budgets. Congress overshot the President, appropriating $250 million, but Bush’s allies in Congress have repeatedly killed Democratic efforts to provide more funding...
...days later, on Martin Luther King Day, Powell--at de Villepin's request--attended a Security Council session that was to debate terrorism. The meeting was relatively uneventful, though Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, said a military strike against Iraq would make fighting terrorism more difficult. But at the press conference afterward, de Villepin dropped his bomb. France, he said, thought that "nothing justifies envisaging military action." It was the plainest signal possible that so long as the inspectors were getting cooperation from Saddam, Paris would not support...
Tenet rushed to the Pentagon and briefed Rumsfeld on the report; the two called the White House to request a meeting with the President. An hour later Bush met with Tenet, Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Air Force General Richard Myers and the other members of the war council--including Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Cheney and White House chief of staff Andrew Card. From his headquarters in Qatar, Franks dialed in over a secure line. The rest of the group spent the next three hours shuttling in and out of the Oval Office, discussing what...
...street vendor would ask. "America," I'd reply, "New York City." This would elicit expressions of outrage at the terrorist attacks, generous inquiries into the well-being of my friends and family and then perhaps a mention of the war in Afghanistan. From the impoverished or oppressed, a request often followed: please tell your President to send help. A faint belief that he might was detectable. A sense that he could, through benign gestures or a forceful imposition of will, was unmistakable...
First-year students will have keycard access to upperclass Houses from 8 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. starting today after a request by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 to house masters...