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...public and behind the scenes, Wolfowitz spent the following months laying out the case for taking the war to Baghdad. In doing so, he cemented his reputation as the Administration's most influential strategist. Since 1973, when he left his teaching job at Yale to join the Nixon Administration, Wolfowitz has served under every President except Clinton. Along the way, he has won some powerful patrons--including Donald Rumsfeld, his current boss, and Dick Cheney, who hired Wolfowitz as his No. 3 during the first Bush Administration...
...only one more season. But fans have a long time before they can roll over and go to sleep. The final season will consist of 20 episodes, with 12 to begin airing in June and the rest next January. Of the show's stars--from left, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis--the middle two recently had babies and presumably now need sleep more than...
...members that was trying to create a fresher, more appealing face for the Republican Party. It was nicknamed "Rummy's Raiders," after its leader, Illinois Representative Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney got to know the boisterous and driven former fighter pilot well enough that when Rumsfeld was tapped by President Richard Nixon to run the Office of Economic Opportunity, Cheney wrote him an unsolicited memo outlining how he should handle the job. Rumsfeld hired Cheney on the spot as his lieutenant...
Rumsfeld was ambitious, imagining himself in the Oval Office one day, and he saw in Cheney a loyal and effective aide but not a rival. When Nixon sent Rumsfeld to run the Cost of Living Council, Rumsfeld again brought Cheney along as his deputy. And when Ford took over for Nixon, appointing Rumsfeld chief of staff, Cheney was at Rumsfeld's side as No. 2; his Secret Service code name was, appropriately, "Backseat." Finally, in November 1975, after Rumsfeld was named Ford's Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney became the youngest White House chief of staff in history...
DIED. FAY GILLIS WELLS, 94, pioneering journalist and pilot who covered the White House during four presidential terms; in Fairfax, Va. She was one of three female reporters who accompanied Nixon to China in 1972 but was perhaps better known for her extrajournalistic exploits. When a plane in which she was taking a stunt lesson lost control over New York's Long Island, Wells parachuted to safety, and she later joked that her first job, teaching women that aviation is safe, was one she fell into...