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...Protocol comes around, don't just dismiss European concerns with a haughty gesture. Instead, argue the American case and try to search for common ground, which Powell did not. And argue your case at the Cabinet table instead of deferring to keepers of the flame like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Failing that, try one-on-one in the Oval Office. Some are already carping that you lack the experience for running a sluggish bureaucracy like the State Department. Here at Stanford University, where you served as provost before going to Washington, they don't think so. Even your critics...
Pentagon insiders expect DONALD RUMSFELD to try to hang on for at least another year. His chances of staying are helped, ironically, by the lack of confirmable alternatives. Deputy Secretary PAUL WOLFOWITZ has been widely criticized for predicting that U.S. troops would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators, and he would have a hard time winning Senate confirmation. CONDOLEEZZA RICE, who is believed to prefer the Pentagon job to Secretary of State, is a more likely choice--unless, as some speculate, she wants a breather from government...
...determined by the answer to a larger question: Will the President continue on the abrasive, unilateral path of his first term, or will he seek, as he implied to Kofi Annan, a more ameliorative approach now that he has been re-elected. A key may be the fate of Donald Rumsfeld. He wants to stay on at the Pentagon, but the President may decide that a fresh start requires the sacking of the man who presided over the Abu Ghraib abuses, the no-bid Halliburton contracts and the post-Saddam planning disaster. The "legacy" Republicans believe it is an absolute...
Donald’s interest in Lincoln dates back to his graduate studies at the University of Illinois, Lincoln’s home from 1830-1861, where Donald reportedly became “ensnared” in Lincoln studies. Through a lifetime’s worth of scholarship, Donald has come to know Abraham Lincoln intimately. Would Donald and Lincoln have been friends if their lives had coincided...
...that when I was much younger, I would have said, ‘Oh, no! That man who goes around laughing at his own stories and hee-hawing over them?’ I wouldn’t have wanted anything to do with him,” Donald said. “But young people are often intolerant, and I was too. His sense of humor, which I found objectionable as a youth, is actually very funny indeed…. So yes, I think I would have become a Lincoln man in my maturity...