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...very, very low key," recalls Brent Scowcroft, who was elevated to National Security Adviser the day Cheney was made chief of staff. "He made the system run. Everybody had access to the President, but it was smooth, orderly. He didn't try to be a deputy President." He even refused the limousine that came with the job, preferring to stick with his old Volkswagen, a beater so threadbare it had no knob at the top of the gearshift...
...heels. In his memoirs, Baker says Cheney argued so consistently in early 1990 that the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe was a bad idea that eventually Bush had to say, "I want this done. Don't keep telling me why it can't be." Says Scowcroft: "He's not a fan of negotiated arms control...
...Powell, who, like Baker, believed that economic sanctions would bring Iraq to heel. Just two days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Cheney was pushing for American troops to go in to defend Saudi Arabia. "Dick was probably ahead of his military on this," Bush wrote in his and Scowcroft's memoir, A World Transformed. Cheney was dispatched to Saudi Arabia for one of the most sensitive missions of the war, persuading King Fahd to agree to a massive deployment of U.S. forces in the region--425,000 troops as it turned out, by January...
...important stagecraft, Bush invited the G.O.P.'s high priests of national security--former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz (who was skeptical about the idea when Reagan embraced it)--to give his plan their seal of approval by standing with him. Some aides wanted a speech, not a press conference, fearing reporters would try to trip him up on nuclear arcana. But Bush, an aide said proudly, "answered all the questions himself!" As part of the effort to appear presidential, he even dispatched aides to give advance...
...mantle of continuity while unveiling his foreign policy centerpiece - a distinctly Reaganesque missile defense strategy. Standing behind the candidate during a media conference at the Washington Press Club was a chorus line of foreign policy players from administrations past, including President Bush's national security adviser Brent Scowcroft; his Russia expert Condoleeza Rice (who now serves as chief foreign policy adviser to Bush the younger); and his Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell, as well as former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. The message in the photo opportunity was unmistakable: I may not be able...