Word: cheney
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...hard, no doubt, to imagine Peter Jennings--after a military briefing from General Schwarzkopf in Saudi Arabia and a Pentagon briefing by Secretary Cheney in Washington--switching to a "spiritual" briefing, not by Billy Graham but by some American poet or writer (aside from Tom Clancy) in Cambridge or New York or Omaha or San Francisco. It is hard not to imagine it because whereas, as the late poet Robert Lowell said (not so long ago, when poets were at least invited to the White House), "Every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public...
...Pentagon, presumably to fuel officials through crisis meetings. In fact, around 11 a.m. Tuesday during a meeting in the Oval Office with his top national-security advisers, Bush signed a directive authorizing the attack unless there was a last-minute diplomatic breakthrough. That afternoon Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney signed an "execute" order putting the directive into effect...
...Jordan and a fueling of nationalist and Islamic extremism that would threaten Western interests and perhaps even bring down moderate Arab regimes. The array of possibilities is bewildering even to those who are leading the war effort. "Some sort of planning needs to be done," conceded Defense Secretary Dick Cheney while appearing before the House Armed Services Committee last December. "Everybody's been so busy dealing with the crisis of the moment that there really hasn't been much effort put into longer range focus...
Bush reviewed the status of the war with Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of State James A. Baker III, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and his top national security advisers...
...with delays and cost overruns, Defense Secretary Cheney pulls the plug on the Avenger program, signaling an end of the buddy-buddy deals of the Reagan...