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...voice in public. But just a few months after he broke with George W. Bush on Iraq, urging him to stay focused on the war against terrorism before going after Saddam Hussein, Scowcroft is speaking out again. This time he's tangling with an old colleague from the Nixon and Ford years, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
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...
...same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands...
...uncle, whom he met as an undergraduate at Yale, and like Bush was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. He was given his first job on Wall Street by Bush’s great uncle, Herbert Walker, and served in the State Department in both the Nixon and Ford administrations...
Critics jumped on the appointment, citing the Nixon-era diplomat's penchant for secrecy. Kissinger quickly went to work to counter that impression. He had dinner with the panel's vice chairman, former Democratic Senator George Mitchell; met with 9/11 victims' families that were at his West Wing announcement; and, sources tell TIME, plans to appoint a liaison to keep in daily contact with families during the probe. Others are worried that Kissinger will be swayed by his many business interests. The international consultant is said to be outraged by the insinuation, but he will not disclose his thick client...