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...Coronado, Calif., of the 60th anniversary of victory over Japan, but there were videoconference calls and the like. The White House is "very, very slow sometimes," says a former Administration official. Besides, members of the A team were on vacation: chief of staff Andy Card was in Maine; Dick Cheney was in Wyoming; even Condoleezza Rice was out of town, shoe-shopping in Manhattan. Many of Bush's best p.r. minds, including media adviser Mark McKinnon, were in Greece at the wedding of White House communications director Nicolle Devenish. Had they been around, perhaps Bush would not have been accompanied...
...ambitious goals the young Rehnquist set for himself, you see how far he actually moved the court. "The agenda he laid down in his first years on the Court were a preview of what he finally achieved in the later years," says University of Virginia law professor Dick Howard. "He knew what he wanted to do early on, reawakening constitutional ideas that had been dormant for decades...
...FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE FROM DICK CHENEY TO TERESA HEINZ KERRY AND MARRIED TO A GUY WHO GETS CALLED THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE US. DOESN'T THAT COMPROMISE YOUR COVERAGE? I don't think so. It is a balancing act that many people in Washington perform. And my husband and I very carefully don't discuss his work. At times, it can be really frustrating. I'm a reporter. I want to know. Once, he came down to Little Rock to meet with the newly elected [President] Bill Clinton, and I was assigned to cover the transition there...
...period marked by the White House's use of faulty intelligence to hype the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program and the failure to plan for a postwar insurgency. In the run-up to the war, she was often overwhelmed by the combined duo of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who ignored her attempts at control. In his recently published history of the National Security Council (NSC), David Rothkopf, a former Clinton Administration official, writes that Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage believed that under Rice's NSC, "the President...
...joined as a federal judge came down earlier this month, when the court said that prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay are not protected by the Geneva Convention and can be tried by military commissions. Roberts dissented in 2003 when his own court refused to rehear Vice President Dick Cheney's appeal to keep secret records from the meetings of his energy task force. Cheney had argued that handing over such documents would violate executive privilege...