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...idea was for each former chief to give Emanuel some practical advice on how to function in his new role. And so around the table they went: Donald Rumsfeld reminded Emanuel that no one is indispensable. Sam Skinner talked about the importance of taking Sundays off. Former Reagan chief Ken Duberstein urged Barack Obama's incoming chief to remember that the President is always the chief and everyone else, by contrast, is merely staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Dick Cheney Prepares to Depart, His Mystery Lingers | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...Then it came time for Dick Cheney, who like Rumsfeld had served more than three decades ago as Gerald Ford's chief of staff, to offer his thoughts. Sitting at the end of the table, the 67-year-old Wyoming native looked at the august group and said in his usually dry style, "Above all else, control your Vice President." (See America's worst Vice Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Dick Cheney Prepares to Depart, His Mystery Lingers | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...come into play on every issue. But across a wide spectrum, Cheney's voice was often the last one Bush heard on hard decisions - and as a result, the one that mattered most. Cheney exerted his influence on the selection of key members of Bush's Cabinet (Pentagon boss Rumsfeld and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill). He moved early in the Bush transition eight years ago to put his own people at key choke points in the Pentagon, on the National Security Council and elsewhere. And his own staff, particularly his longtime aide David Addington and former chief of staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Dick Cheney Prepares to Depart, His Mystery Lingers | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, chary of Blair's independence, passed him over as a possible chairman of the Joint Chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dennis Blair | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...four-star out in one of the regional combatant commands when Secretary Rumsfeld and his crowd came in. When he wanted to take his first look at key questions, he'd call on a bunch of old, retired officers who he happened to know in his former life to study things that were the clear responsibility of the uniformed services, and it was just a disaster." - On how not to hand off military command from one Administration to the next (September 19, 2008 interview with Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dennis Blair | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

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