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...sent to take over the Justice Department. The White House counsel post and the Education Department are given over to close Bush advisers. Most important, Bush turns over the State Department-foreign-occupied territory in the view of most White Houses-to his closest foreign-policy confidant, Condoleezza Rice. Then he gives her job, National Security Council chief, to her deputy. Not since Nixon moved Henry Kissinger from the White House to the State Department has a President so seized the foreign-policy apparatus...
...What to expect: ? Regime Change (at the State Department) The resignation of Secretary of State Colin Powell?and his replacement by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice?marks the beginning of a changing of the guard at Foggy Bottom. The President wants a diplomatic team that focuses on international-threat reduction a little more and on second-guessing the White House a whole lot less. With Dr. Condi (a Bush confidant?indeed, a member of his mind-meld club) at the helm and a new crew with less of a striped-pants attitude, look for North Korea to become a more...
...remain a nation united to defeat our enemies. They would like nothing better than to see the U.S. implode. We don't need the mainstream media to foment chaos and divisiveness. Enough already! We need the media to help unite us. United we stand; divided we fall. Harriet E. Rice Webster...
...went out from Air Force One that no one in the campaign or at G.O.P. headquarters was to make a political calculation within earshot of a reporter. While Bush spoke in Toledo in the late afternoon, his political aides discussed setting a trap for Kerry. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice briefed Bush throughout the day on the details of the tape, and Chase Untermeyer, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar, tried to persuade al-Jazeera not to run it. Once aides were sure the video was being aired, however, Bush wrote down some remarks that included Senator Kerry. "We knew that...
...David Wade and traveling chief of staff David Morehouse in the messy fourth-floor office where he keeps his most precious Vietnam mementos, including a picture of his friend Dick Pershing, from whom he had been inseparable in prep school and college and who had been killed in a rice paddy by a Vietcong grenade. "Every time they attack what I did on those rivers, they attack people who are not alive to defend themselves," Kerry thundered. "This is an outrage. I'm not going to sit and take this anymore." When the rest of the team in Washington joined...