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Returning to Washington, O'Neill will find himself with new problems but also old friends. O'Neill met Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan back in 1969, when both men worked as junior aides in the Nixon White House, and has stayed in touch ever since. O'Neill was such a whiz at mastering the details of Medicare and Social Security that Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff, a young guy named Dick Cheney, promoted him to deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. By 1975, Cabinet officers like Donald Rumsfeld, the once-and-future Pentagon chief, were...
...Rumsfeld, 68, had the stature - he ran the Defense Department for Gerald Ford a quarter-century ago, and he's served four Republican administrations going back to Nixon. And he's got the pedigree. He dealt with low military morale in the wake of Vietnam, has held posts up and down the military and economic policy chains, and sees eye to eye with Bush on a missile defense. He even signed a letter in November criticizing Vice President Al Gore for agreeing in 1995 to Russia's sale of military equipment to Iran...
...been Ronald Reagan's Middle East envoy and Nixon's ambassador to NATO, and he studied deficit reduction under Bush's father. Heck, Cheney was Rumsfeld's deputy when Rumsfeld was Ford's chief of staff...
...because it's hard to maintain holiday cheer when, say, Baroness von Blixen contracts syphilis in Out of Africa. Or when you come home from the war scenes in 1990's Havana and then watch Marines on the news spending Christmas in the Saudi desert before bombing Iraq. And Nixon, like Nixon, was kind of a bummer...
DIED. WILLARD NIXON, 72, 1950s Boston Red Sox pitcher who never won more than 12 games in a season but who routinely trounced the indomitable Yankees; after a battle with Alzheimer's; in Rome, Ga. "I have no earthly way of explaining my mastery over them," Nixon said...