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...Pentagon's top officers are waiting with some anxiety for Rumsfeld to take on his sixth Administration job in six years. He has not yet shown the necessary breadth of intellect to handle an assignment as complex and demanding as running the nation's defenses. Even his admirers tend to describe him in terms of his political acumen and talent for infighting; only after they pause for breath do they add that he is also smart and able...
...Rumsfeld may not be in the Pentagon long. He could end up running with Jerry Ford in 1976 (see page 30). No matter how the election turns out, Rumsfeld still has plenty of time to make Nixon's prediction come true. By the time the 1980 election rolls around, he will be only...
...much of his career, Cheney has served as a deputy to his departing boss, Donald Rumsfeld-at the Office of Economic Opportunity, in Nixon's White House and at the Cost of Living Council. The partnership was temporarily dissolved when Rumsfeld was appointed U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Then, soon after Rumsfeld went home to organize Gerald Ford's staff in 1974, Cheney signed on as deputy assistant to the President...
Cheney is tight-lipped and intensely loyal, but in contrast to the frequently brusque Rumsfeld, he is outwardly relaxed on the job. His long hours and increased responsibilities are likely to leave Cheney little time to indulge his passion for summer mountain-climbing expeditions in Wyoming and Colorado with his wife Lynne, to whom he was married in 1964. The Cheneys live with their two daughters, aged six and nine, in Bethesda...
Because of Rumsfeld's policy of "interchangeability"-the practice of having deputies regularly fill in for their bosses-Cheney in the past year has spent almost as much time with the President at home and on the road as Rumsfeld has. Like Rumsfeld, Cheney will run Ford's White House staff and implement his decisions. But he is not expected to be a manipulator of policies and personalities as his old boss...