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Donald Rumsfeld was dispatched to the political gallows Wednesday as swiftly and surprisingly as he arrived at the Pentagon, for a second tour, nearly six years ago. A hard-nosed businessman, tough political infighter, and Dick Cheney's mentor, he was a good choice to retool a Pentagon that had grown fat and complacent since his last tour as Pentagon chief ended in the Ford Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Rumsfeld's Fall: The Perils of Hubris | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...Kansas-born Gates is a Bush family hand from way back. He served Bush's father as deputy national security adviser and later as CIA director. He was a rare hardliner in the Bush 41 White House, famously suspicious of Mikhail Gorbachev and closer ideologically to then-Defense boss Dick Cheney than to Colin Powell and James Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who'll Replace Rummy | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...managing editor of Fox News, will lead tonight's election coverage on the news station of choice for most of the White House. Hume's "fair and balanced" coverage begins at 6 p.m. Eastern and continues until at least midnight. Fox News Channel plays constantly aboard Vice President Dick Cheney's plane, and it was Fox coverage that was flickering on a corner television in the White House residence when reporters were taken upstairs on election night in 2004. Hume, a University of Virginia graduate, was with ABC News for 23 years and was that network's White House correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Fox News' Brit Hume | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...Dick Cheney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What They Meant ... | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Facial symmetry appeals to us too. Dick Cheney's least trustworthy feature is easily his smile, a lopsided thing that makes him look as if half his face is pleased with something while the other half is paying bills. Research at Columbia University revealed that when some people see fleeting, subliminally projected images of fearful faces, their brain's fright center lights up. If fear is infectious, perhaps a dishonest face makes us feel similarly slippery or a surly face leaves us feeling sour--hardly what politicians want to stir up in voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing Realities | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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