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...APPOINTED. HENRY KISSINGER, 79, Nobel Prize-winning former U.S. secretary of state who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; by President George W. Bush to head a new independent commission to investigate intelligence and security failures over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; in Washington D.C. While Kissinger was Bush's first choice, critics on both sides of the Atlantic have jumped on the appointment, pointing to Kissinger's penchant for secrecy during the Nixon era. Kissinger insists: "We are under no restrictions, and we will accept no restrictions...
...though Gore may seem like a long shot, there's some history worth recalling. In the final hours of the 2000 campaign, Gore startled an aide aboard Air Force Two with the observation that, if he ran again in eight years, he would be about the age of Richard Nixon when he finally won. Nixon, after all, was then the last Vice President to lose a close one. --With reporting by James Carney and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
Karl Rove, a former historian and now political guru to President Bush, is writing a short history of his office, which over the years housed, among others, Kennedy's political operative, Larry O'Brien; Eisenhower and Nixon's troubleshooter, Bryce Harlow; and Cabinet Secretary Elizabeth Dole. "The office has the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing," says Rove. He initially assumed it had been installed for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first First Lady to have a West Wing office. (She insists it was there when she moved...
...Vietnam War and Watergate eras; in Washington. The famously secretive spy master plotted to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro with, among other things, poisoned cigars. Domestically, Helms headed a legally dubious scheme to spy on anti--Vietnam War activists. Fired by President Nixon for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate break-in, he was later found guilty of covering up spy operations in Cuba and Chile to congressional investigators. The conviction, Helms said, was "like a badge of honor...
...many Republicans, this looks like bad politics for Bush. "It seems to me about as far from Compassionate Conservatism as you can get," says former Nixon and Reagan aide Lyn Nofziger. "There are an awful lot of people in their 50s and younger who smoked pot when they were younger and don't look on it as something that destroyed their lives. I think there is a lot more open-mindedness toward pot than there used...