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December 25, 2006
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His Way
- Comment about President Bush's response to the Iraq Study Group's recommendations… All we wanted for Christmas was a plausible Iraq strategy. According to the latest polls, seven out of ten Amaricans disapprove of Bush's performance regarding Iraq. The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld has produced a chaos in Washington's Iraq-policy…
September 13, 2004
Shouts & Murmurs
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Running Mates
- SHOUTS AND MURMURS casual in which George W. Bush confides to his diary that he is secretly in love with Senator John Kerry... I didn’t want it to happen. I didn’t see it coming. I’m a husband. I’m a father. I’m the President of the United States of America. I’m…
August 07, 2006
The Financial Page
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Unsafe at Any Price
- THE FINANCIAL PAGE about defense spending… More than half the federal government's discretionary spending goes to the military, and, while a sizable chunk goes toward the fight against terrorism and the Iraq War, too much has nothing to do with the demands of a post-9/11 world. Money is going…
May 08, 2006
Shouts & Murmurs
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Rummy In Love
- SHOUTS & MURMURS casual of a series of memos from the dormitory of Donald Rumsfeld to three girlfriends. To: Miss X [EYES ONLY] It is my determination that you have advanced to the fourth quartile of personal value to this writer at the present time… To: Miss X [NOT FOR CIRCULATION…
January 28, 2002
Annals of National Security
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The Getaway
- ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about a clandestine airlift of Pakistani military and intelligence personnel who had been aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan, out of the country, and the likelihood that elements of the Taliban leadership were able to escape with them... (Pakistan had been the Taliban’s staunchest military and economic…
February 12, 2001
The Back Page
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X.F.L. Halftime Events [ABSTRACT]
- THE BACK PAGE four-panel color drawing showing the halftime antics of the new XFL football league, including a pro-wrestling-like “surgical smackdown”; and a segment where Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and sidekick Gov. Jesse Ventura “choose quarterbacks to test the Pentagon's latest weapons systems.”…
November 20, 2006
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Thump
- Comment about the Republican defeat in the midterm elections… Writer quotes President Bush's comments after the 2004 election: “I earned capital in the campaign-political capital-and now I intend to spend it.” And spend it he did. By last week, the coffers were empty and not even the hurried…
November 27, 2006
Annals of National Security
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The Next Act
- ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about debate within the Bush Administration over the extent of Iran's nuclear weapons program and how best to counter it… In interviews, current and former Administration officials returned to one question: whether Vice-President Cheney would be as influential in the last two years of Bush's…
November 20, 2006
Inner Office
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The End of the Affair
- Talk story about Defense Department official Kenneth Adelman's friendship with outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld… Adelman, the former director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, had been friends with Donald Rumsfeld for thirty-six years. They had first worked together in the Nixon Administration. Two months ago…
August 07, 2006
Shouts & Murmurs
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The Bush Quiz: The Twentieth Hundred Days
- SHOUTS & MURMURS quiz about the Bush Administration’s twentieth hundred days…
