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...proposed Cabinet contains several luminaries. Gen. Colin L. Powell as Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, and Paul O'Neill as Treasury Secretary--all under the watchful eye of Vice President Dick Cheney--should serve the nation well, bringing years of experience in federal administration. Condoleezza Rice also seems a promising candidate for national security advisor...
...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 trudging hat in hand into O'Neill's office...
...been a restoration, all right, but of which presidency? First came Dick Cheney, next Paul O'Neill. Now comes Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, and the new Administration seems to have as much to do with the Ford Administration of the mid-1970s as it does with Bush...
...With Rumsfeld at the helm, the Pentagon is likely to be faced with the same challenge of 25 years ago: the desire to keep its expensive conventional weapons systems and build an expensive but unconventional new one. Despite the end of the cold war, the Pentagon budget Rumsfeld inherits will be larger--at $295 billion--than his 1976 budget of $282 billion, after adjusting for inflation. But even as his boss talks of modernizing the military for the surprises of a post-cold war era, Rumsfeld is going to need all that bigger purse, and more. Bush has pledged more...
...Navy pilot and Princeton wrestler, Rumsfeld was, at 43, the youngest Defense Secretary in history when he ran the Pentagon for the last 14 months of Ford's term. Now 68, the Chicago native spent six years in Congress and eight in the Nixon and Ford administrations before beginning a successful pharmaceutical career at G.D. Searle & Co. Pentagon officials and Bush see Rumsfeld as a counterweight to Colin Powell, the retired Army general tapped to run Bush's foreign policy. "General Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet, but neither is Don Rumsfeld," the President...