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...Around Washington, Cheney has long had a reputation as affable but guarded, easy to like but hard to read. In The Commanders, Bob Woodward's account of top-level decision making during the Panama invasion and the Gulf War, Powell, whom Cheney had recommended to be head of the Joint Chiefs and who depended on Cheney as a pipeline to Cabinet meetings he did not sit in on, complains that "Cheney comes back from the White House and tells nothing." Pete Williams, an NBC News correspondent who was for years Cheney's press spokesman, used to joke about...
...definitely Republican food, a far cry from the blue-collar cheese steaks this city is famous for. That fact was not lost on then-mayor Ed Rendell, who, when courting convention planners from both parties, took GOP bigwigs to Le Bec-Fin and dragged Dems to a hoagie joint. The proof, to use that worn gastronomical phrase, is in the pudding: The Dems took their party to the left coast, while Republicans cheerfully descended on this most Democratic of cities. Was it the food? What else...
...farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...
...George Bush Sr. tapped Cheney to be secretary of defense, and the nomination swept through Congress in less than two weeks. Cheney's tenure at the Defense Department was eventful; he appointed General Colin Powell to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the two men worked together during the Persian Gulf War. Cheney left the Cabinet in January 1993, as the Clinton administration began...
Brown is currently using a two-tier system, with a joint student-faculty committee participating in the search process and providing input to the main search committee...