Word: fording
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Just as important, he is an old friend of George Bush's -- a key asset in this presidency -- and has ties to two other Administration power centers. While serving as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in 1975 and '76, Cheney worked alongside Brent Scowcroft, then as now the National Security Adviser, as well as Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign...
...After Ford's defeat, Cheney returned to Wyoming, where in 1978 he won election to the state's sole congressional seat. His path to the Senate has been blocked -- Wyoming has two entrenched Republicans in Malcolm Wallop and Alan Simpson -- so Cheney has concentrated on climbing the House leadership ladder. Voted minority whip last December, he was considered a likely successor to minority leader Bob Michel. He defended the Reagan Administration during Congress's 1987 Iran-contra investigation and joined several G.O.P. colleagues in a harsh dissent from the panel's final report...
...spurned a President's Cabinet choice, and was a clear indication of which way the power is flowing along Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush moved swiftly to stanch the bleeding by replacing Tower with Congressman Richard Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who served as White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford. Cheney is expected to win quick FBI clearance and Senate confirmation -- much to the relief of Bush, who declared, "Too much time has been wasted here...
According to Hafferty, veterans Karen Flick, Mel Berger, Kate Ford and Kathy Kitayama are looking strong. Tara Gustillo is going to be relied on for the primary whole set, while Pratt and Co-Captain Stacy Moran should provide the needed experience in the field. The starting lineup has not been determined...
...first, Bush swore that he would "take no part, directly or indirectly, in any partisan political activity of any kind." But that didn't satisfy Nunn and Jackson. They demanded a more explicit promise. Finally, and over Bush's objections, Ford sent Congress a letter ruling out Bush as a potential vice- presidential candidate. "Yeah, we beat him back then," says Nunn, "but you notice where he's sitting today." As for '92 and an ultimate Bush-Nunn face-off, that could make the present skirmish look like child's play...