Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's because competing for vice president means not losing to "good guy" Gabay. And it also represents a chance for the candidates to position themselves in the executive hierarchy before reaching for the brass ring next fall...
...stepped into the job, including gays in the military and the question of when and how American forces should be used in a world of small regional conflicts. It also remains to be seen how even an adroit bureaucratic navigator like Inman will manage to court the brass while squeezing their budgets. But from the start it appeared that he would have the stature with both the Pentagon and the public that Aspin never achieved. Even Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, a man accustomed to shaking his head mournfully over Clinton's judgments on military matters, was full of praise...
...also made him unsuitable as a front man. At congressional hearings he was apt to put his elbow on the table and cradle his chin in one hand. He can irritate colleagues by referring to them by their last name only, or sometimes just the first. Military brass were startled to hear Aspin refer to General Colin Powell at a briefing by saying "Colin will take care of that." A senior Administration official summed up the problem: "Lacks gravitas...
...view of the White House were Aspin's frequent wobbles when he tried to articulate Administration policies in the media. During the first weeks of the fight over gays in the military he appeared on Face the Nation to air the view that Congress and the military brass had the power "to derail this thing." When he added that "if we can't work it out, we will disagree, and the thing won't happen," it sounded like an open invitation for opponents of the change to mobilize. Political insiders, however, sensed in the ousting of Aspin what they termed...
...first career military officer to become Defense Secretary since George Marshall left the job in 1951, the admiral might not be any more forthcoming with the military than Aspin was. That's because, matters of style aside, the outgoing Secretary took few positions that led to friction with Pentagon brass. Though he came to the job willing to entertain the idea that the U.S should be prepared to use force selectively to solve regional problems like Bosnia and Haiti, he quickly became a defender of General Powell's all-or-nothing view that in places where...