Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack of usual courtesies, but, more important, because of the questionable caliber of a couple of the replacements. As successors to Schlesinger and Colby, Ford chose two ambitious and heatedly partisan Republicans: for Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, the White House chief of staff; for CIA director, George Bush, the chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Senator Henry Jackson, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, charged that Ford was surrounding himself with "yes men and lackeys." The switches further increased the record number of high-level Administration changes since 1969, a churning of Government that not only...
...vice-presidential nomination to induce various Republicans to back him. Mused California Pollster Mervin Field: "Ford has a wide-open dance card because he's not coming to the prom with a girl of his own." Among the contenders are three members of the Administration's new "team": Rumsfeld, Bush and Elliot Richardson (see page 30), who was named to succeed Rogers Morton as Secretary of Commerce. Morton is expected to take over leadership of the President's campaign from Director Howard ("Bo") Callaway, who has been blamed by many Republicans for its ineptitude...
...George Bush, Ford's choice as CIA director, is in a similar situation. In his brief, unremarkable diplomatic career, he has served for two years as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and spent the past 13 months as chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. But he has no firsthand knowledge of the CIA, its operations or the investigations that have rocked the agency for nearly a year...
...president. William Colby was clearly on the outs, Church committee revelations and good investigative journalism having dealt a virtual death blow to his credibility and that of the entire CIA. Replacing him now, in the context of other changes, merely served to reinforce the decisiveness image. And naming George Bush his successor is of course an appeal to the mainstream and conservative factions of the Republican Party, since Bush is a recognized party loyalist and former national chairman...
...fair, Uncle Sam gesturing to the thin air next to a telephone pole, all of these attest to the madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become disquieted by the rough curve of the Great Pink Snail's pond and the parallel curve of the fence. Or cry when you see the lovers in front of the Rabbit house, if while sharing in their intimacy, you have none of your...