Word: rumsfeld
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Later Kissinger turned his fire on the Pentagon and contributed to Gerald Ford's decision to replace James Schlesinger with Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. It was a Pyrrhic victory. In 1976 Rumsfeld undermined Kissinger's attempt to negotiate an arms-control treaty with the Soviet Union. Why? Because detente had become a political liability to Ford in an election year...
...however, Davis was preparing his attack under the code name Kronos, for a Greek god associated with time. Davis was advised by Robert Greenhill, vice chairman of the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, which is now Paramount's chief adviser in the bid. Paramount said last week that Donald Rumsfeld, a former Defense Secretary, has agreed to serve as trustee for tendered Time stock until Paramount clears all legal barriers to its takeover...
Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole had the final say in choosing the remaining four Republicans on the commission: Pete Domenici, the ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee; Bill Frenzel, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee; Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Defense Secretary under President Gerald Ford; and Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate chose their own batch of household names: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn; Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL- CIO; and Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National...
...trimmed for maximum political appeal, rising steadily. Sam Nunn consigned to the campaign basement unless the sides and back of his shag are thinned. George Bush ("really great") and Bob Dole ("styled very well") streamlined and sailing smartly into the political winds. Pete du Pont, Al Haig and Don Rumsfeld rightly barbered to take the course should the others falter. Jack Kemp, splendidly styled for football, left in the locker room instead of the White House if he does not have some serious cutting done...
Powerplay might be better subtitled Everybody in the World Against Me. Cunningham, for example, bitterly denounces Bendix Board Members Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, for trying to nudge her out. She quotes Rumsfeld as telling Agee, "All right. So you piddled on the floor. But you don't have to have your face wiped in it. She's got to go." Cunningham charges W. Michael Blumenthal, former Bendix chairman and Treasury Secretary under Jimmy Carter, with spreading malicious gossip. She writes that Blumenthal remarked to Bendix Board...