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Daley, Bill, 288, 290–91
Dallas, Tex., 148, 254, 265, 275, 284
Halliburton and, 248–49, 252–53, 266
Danforth, Jack and Sally, 264
Dark Winter exercise, 385
Darman, Dick, 165
Daschle, Tom, 308, 310, 341, 351, 366
Davies, Joseph E., 37–38
Davis, Rick, 120–21
Day, Bud, 360
Defense Department (DOD), U.S., 83, 244, 291, 298–300, 354, 357, 382, 430, 460, 485
A-12 construction and, 236–37
Abu Ghraib abuses and, 420–21
and attempted coup against Gorbachev, 229–31
base force concept and, 184, 234–35
budgets of, 164–67, 184, 311
Cheney’s nomination to, 129, 152–58, 161–62, 336, 388
Cheney’s office at, 159–60, 163, 165
Cheney’s staffing of, 161–63, 169–71, 183, 235, 319
Cheney’s tenure at, 8, 137, 142, 150, 158–240, 245–47, 249, 266, 271, 298, 305, 315, 318–19, 334, 336, 340, 369, 396–97, 403, 408, 421, 426, 450, 497, 520, 529–30
and deployment of troops to Persian Gulf, 186–96, 198, 202–6, 208
Desert Storm and, 159, 194–201, 203–29, 234–35, 340, 369
Ford administration changes and, 91
Goldwater-Nichols and, 150, 155, 170–71, 452
Iraqi Freedom and, 369–70, 396–97, 399, 439, 441–42, 451, 455, 457
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 183–86, 205
National Military Command Center at, 5, 174, 177
9/11 and, 1–3, 5–6, 10, 329, 333, 342
nuclear weapons targeting and, 232–33
organization of, 160–61
Panamanian crisis and, 168–69, 172–75, 177–78
regional strategy of, 184, 235–36
relations between media and, 213–14
Rumsfeld’s appointments to, 299, 421
Rumsfeld’s departure from, 442–44
Rumsfeld’s tenures at, 92, 117, 258, 299, 421, 442–44
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 348–49
Tower’s nomination to, 152–53, 156
Vietnam War and, 91, 185
Defense Intelligence Agency, 315, 402–3, 439
Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), 235–36, 318
Democrats, Democratic Party, 20, 33–35, 37–38, 52, 59, 71, 77–79, 102–3, 112, 115, 150, 173, 258, 266, 269–70, 273, 291, 299, 307, 317, 350, 412–13, 438, 447, 459, 493, 501
Cheney’s congressional campaigns and, 118, 123, 138–39, 303
Cheney’s congressional career and, 125–26, 128–29, 131–32, 134, 136, 141–42, 144–45
Cheney’s heritage and, 11, 42–43
Cheney’s vice presidential campaigns and, 423–24
college campus protests and, 47
control of Congress lost by, 244–45
financial crisis and, 504, 507, 509
Ford’s economic policies and, 77, 79
on Hussein, 365–66
Iran-Contra affair and, 144–47
Jeffords’s party switching and, 309–10
Lieberman’s vice presidential campaign and, 276–77, 281
surge and, 455–56, 458, 460–62
and withdrawal from Iraq, 444–45
Dent, Harry, 97
Desai, Shashank, 532
Desert Fox, Operation, 365–66
Desert One, Operation, 137, 452
Desert Shield, Operation, 155, 211
building up and deploying forces in, 186–97, 202–6, 208–9, 213
Desert Storm, Operation, 159, 177, 189–229, 239, 301, 339–40, 374, 384, 389, 399, 411, 433, 440, 449–50
air operations in, 196, 198–99, 207, 210–12, 215–20, 222, 228, 280, 401
casualties and, 212, 214–15, 220, 226, 401
cease-fire negotiations in, 217–18, 221–24
celebration for troops in, 226–27
combat planning in, 198–200, 203–4, 206–7, 369
commencement of, 210–12, 340
comparisons between Iraqi Freedom and, 369–71, 379, 383, 393, 396–97, 400–401
Congress and, 204–5, 207–8, 225, 393
end of, 223–24, 226–29
ground operations in, 198–200, 206–7, 220–24
international support and, 189–96, 198, 200–201, 207, 214, 228, 378–79, 396–97
Iraqi WMD programs and, 364, 368
Kuwait and, 155, 199–200, 202–3, 212, 217–18, 220–23, 225, 234–35, 379, 397, 400
lessons of, 228, 234–35, 255, 347
logistics in, 207, 220, 223
media and, 196–97, 203, 211–14, 218, 221, 223, 280
Scud attacks and, 214–17, 221, 400
DeVoto, Bernard, 22
Dick Cheney Federal Building, 253–54
Dickey, Clarice (grandmother), 12, 23
Dickey, David (grandfather), 16
death of, 23, 119
grandson’s childhood and, 12, 18, 22–23
politics of, 11, 43
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, 20
Diggs, Charles, 132–33
Dole, Bob, 81, 153
considered for Ford’s running mate, 101–2
Iran-Contra affair and, 143–44
Dostum, Abdul Rashid, 345–46, 353–54
Douglas, William O., 87–88
Dow Chemical Company, 36
Downing, Wayne, 217, 449–50
Dresser Industries, 249, 255
Drummy, Maureen, 34, 41–42
Duelfer, Charles, 412
Dugan, Mike, 196–97
Dutch elm disease, 44
Eagleburger, Lawrence, 211, 216
Eastern Europe, 93, 167, 180, 231
and collapse of Soviet Union, 184, 202
Ford-Carter debates and, 104–5
economics, economy, 125, 339–40, 374
Afghanistan and, 427, 497, 499
crises and depressions in, 13–16, 503–11
energy policy and, 315–16
Ford and, 75–80
Iraq and, 184, 186, 190–91, 194, 197–98, 440, 481
9/11 and, 6, 10, 339, 502
of North Korea, 473, 475
O’Neill and, 394–95
and price and wage controls, 59–63
Russia and, 167, 202, 230, 232, 514–15 see also taxes, taxpayers
Edelman, Eric, 4, 7, 235, 378, 516, 530–31
Edson, Gary, 277
education, 56, 282, 309–10, 427
Bush and, 269, 273, 276, 298, 328
college campus protests and, 36–37, 45–47, 53
Edwards, John, 262, 423–24
Edwards, Lori, 532
Egypt, 54–55, 92, 183, 222, 375, 398
and deployment of U.S. troops to Persian Gulf, 192–93
Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), 334, 414–15
Ehrlichman, John, 52–53, 65
Eisenhower, Dwight, 20, 76, 85, 120–21, 301
El-Bayoumi, Jehan, 531
elections and campaigns, 42
of 1916, 103
of 1952, 20
of 1958, 124
of 1964, 34–35, 90, 115
of 1968, 37–38, 43, 47, 52, 59, 97
of 1972, 58–59, 64
of 1974, 69, 77, 86, 88–89, 130–31
of 1976, 78, 80–81, 84–86, 88–91, 93–109, 114–16, 118, 131, 136–40, 154, 244, 258, 276, 289
of 1978, 112–24, 127, 130–31, 134
of 1980, 134, 138–40
of 1984, 131, 140, 148
of 1986, 143, 245
of 1988, 148, 151, 153
of 1992, 238–39, 242, 267, 269–70, 409–10, 426
of 1994, 242, 244–45
of 1996, 242, 244, 246
of 2000, 103, 124, 252–98, 304, 308, 313–14, 328, 422
of 2002, 310
of 2004, 262, 406–7, 412–13, 416–18, 422–26, 442, 530
of 2006, 443–44, 448
of 2008, 462, 500, 507–12, 5
16–18, 520
Elliott, Tonya, 532
Emanuel, Rahm, 501, 516–17
Embody, Kathie Berger, 114, 127, 157
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 159, 163
Endara, Guillermo, 168, 177
Enduring Freedom, Operation:
awarding medals in, 496–97
combat operations in, 336–37, 340–41, 343–47, 356, 367–68, 370–72, 376, 384, 414, 419–20, 426, 480, 497–99, 501
combat planning in, 332, 334, 336–37, 340–41, 346
injuries and deaths in, 354, 445–46, 496, 498
prisoners in, 353–56
strategy reviews in, 500–502
troop increases in, 498, 500–502
enemy combatants, 354, 356–57
energy:
California’s crisis and, 315
Cheney’s congressional career and, 125, 136
Cheney’s task force on, 316–18, 328
Halliburton and, 254–55
regulating prices of, 60–61 see also oil, oil fields
enhanced interrogation techniques, 358–63
Cheney’s speech on, 522–23
Obama and, 362–63, 512, 520–24
Erickson, Swede, 24
Ericson, Elmer (uncle), 16–17
Ericson, Mildred (aunt), 16–17
Estonia, 231–32
Europe, 180, 182, 201, 215, 233, 247, 325, 380, 391, 438, 499, 513 see also Eastern Europe Evans, Don, 288–90, 382
F-15s, F-15Es, 197, 472
deployment to Saudi Arabia of, 136, 187, 191, 211
and Scud attacks on Israel, 215–16
F-117s, 141, 177, 192, 211, 399
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia, 377, 397
and deployment of U.S. troops to Persian Gulf, 187–91, 193, 213
Fake, Tom, 22, 25–26
Fallon, Fox, 477–78
Farmers and Merchants Bank, 14–15
Fauci, Anthony, 386
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 9, 157, 279, 291, 351–52, 407
Abscam and, 133–34
OEO and, 51, 53
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, 507
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 281, 319, 429
Federal Reserve, 6, 259, 299, 315, 339–40, 475–76, 503–7, 510
Ferraro, Geraldine, 129, 131
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report, 503
Fitzgerald, Patrick, 407–9
Florida, 2, 95, 162, 168, 273–74, 356, 369, 429
2000 election results and, 287–92, 294–96
Flynt, Jack, 131
Foley, Laurence, 368, 393
Ford, Betty, 70, 100, 108, 327
Ford, Gerald Rudolph, Jr., 67–110, 238, 242, 248, 264, 286, 298, 388, 421, 530
administration changes of, 89–93
Carter debated by, 104–5
Carter’s relationship with, 137–38
Casper visited by, 118–19
Cheney as chief of staff of, 92–97, 102–9, 115, 117, 122, 130, 153–54, 156–57, 179, 246, 266, 304, 315, 403
Cheney as deputy chief of staff of, 70–71, 73–76, 80–85, 88–90, 92
congressional career of, 72–73, 76, 78–79, 86, 91
criticisms of competence of, 77–78, 88
death and funeral of, 137–38, 272
economy and, 75–80
honoring of, 327
Mayaguez crisis and, 83
Nixon pardoned by, 69–70, 74–75, 77, 82, 86, 103
presidential campaign of, 80–81, 85–86, 88–91, 93–108, 114–16, 118, 138–39, 154, 244, 258, 276
presidential election defeat of, 101, 107–8, 137
presidential transition of, 67–68, 94
Rockefeller’s relationship with, 80
Rumsfeld as chief of staff of, 70–73, 75–76, 80, 89–90, 93, 117
running mate issues considered by, 100–103, 139–40, 258
Supreme Court appointment of, 87–88, 322
transition to Carter from, 106–7
Vietnam War and, 75, 81–83, 91
Ford, Gerald Rudolph, Sr., 106, 119
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 348, 351
France, 20, 149, 200, 204–5, 224, 397, 499
Frankel, Max, 104–5
Franks, Tommy:
Afghanistan and, 336–37, 344–45, 370
Iraqi Freedom and, 369–70, 383, 386, 399, 401
Freeman, Charles, 189–90
Frist, Bill, 351, 455
tax cuts and, 311–13
Gannon, Frank, 120, 530
Gates, Bob, 190, 442, 454, 459–60, 468, 478, 485
Geldien, Harry, 24
General Electric (GE), 505
General Motors (GM), 113–14, 162, 248, 510–11
General Services Administration (GSA), 295, 298
Geneva Conventions, 354–55, 361
Georgia, 231, 512–15
Germany, 55, 84, 161, 179–80, 202, 216, 413
Giambastiani, Ed, 459–60
Gingrich, Newt, 129, 131–33, 154, 245–46
Glass, Hugh, 22
Glick, Jeremy and Lyzbeth, 333
Glosson, Buster, 199
Goldwater, Barry, 34, 90, 150
Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act, 150, 155, 170–71, 452
Gonzales, Alberto, 322, 348, 350–51
Goos, Christian C., 530
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 174, 179
arms control and, 234, 491
attempted coup against, 172, 201, 229–31
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 160, 167, 218
Cheney’s relationship with, 167–68
Desert Storm and, 201, 218, 221
Gore, Al:
Bush-Cheney inauguration and, 302–3
presidential campaign of, 103, 270, 275, 279–82, 286, 288–89
2000 election results and, 288–92, 294–97
vice presidential campaign of, 267, 269–70
Goss, Porter, 351, 359–60
Grand Review of the Armies, 13
Grant, Ulysses S., 13, 156, 163
Grassley, Chuck, 311–13, 339
Great Britain, 10, 91, 191, 195, 200, 224, 248, 250, 366, 394, 411, 413, 420
Cheney’s vice presidential trip to, 372–74
Iraqi Freedom and, 372–73, 398, 448
Iraqi uranium acquisition and, 402, 404–5
preventing terrorism in, 358, 362
Great Depression, 15–16, 505
Greene, Mike, 296–97
Greenspan, Alan, 76, 78–79, 299, 315, 394, 504, 506
July Fourth party of, 259–60
9/11 and, 6, 339–40
Grenada, invasion of, 150
Gribbin, Dave, 126, 132, 163, 255, 278
Guantanamo, 354–56, 361, 355–56, 520, 522–23
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 87
Gulfport, Miss., 431
Gulf wars, see Desert Storm, Operation; Iraqi Freedom, Operation
gun law, 494–96
Guthrie, A. B., 22
Hadley, Steve, 4, 252, 290, 360, 405, 441, 444, 451
Afghanistan and, 500
Cheney’s vice presidential campaigns and, 278, 282
Iraqi WMD and, 395–96
North Korean nuclear program and, 484–88
surge and, 456–58, 460, 462
Syrian nuclear program and, 466, 468–69
Haines, William Wister, 29
Haldeman, H. R. “Bob,” 65, 70, 72, 117
Halliburton, 273
CEO search of, 248–49
Cheney’s leadership at, 201–2, 249, 252–55, 260–63, 299
Cheney’s vice presidential campaigns and, 262, 277
Cheney’s vice presidential candidacy and, 260–62, 266
Hambali, 359 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 361
Hamilton, Lee, 141–42, 446, 462–63
Hampton, Fred, 46–47
Hannah, John, 378, 439, 441, 530–31
Hansen, Clif
f, 111–12, 127
Harlow, Bryce, 68, 139
Harris, Katherine, 292, 294
Harris, Suzanne, 280
Hartmann, Bob, 73–76, 94
Harvey, Derek, 439–40
Hassan, King of Morocco, 193
Hastert, Dennis, 6, 306, 308, 311–12, 351
Hathaway, Stan, 33, 112
Hawaii, Cheney’s vacation in, 126
Hayakawa, S. I., 46
Hayden, Mike:
enhanced interrogation techniques and, 360–61
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 348–52
health care, 276, 280–82, 319, 422
Heiden, Debbie, 273, 512, 531
Helms, Jesse, 87, 99
Helsinki Accords, 84, 86–87, 104
Hennessey, Keith, 503, 506–7
Hezbollah, 143, 437, 470, 480
High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), 362
Hileman, Brock, 25
Hill, Christopher, 474–75, 477, 481–84, 486–88, 490, 492
Hitler, Adolf, 31, 172, 204–5, 374
Hofmann, Lewis, 516, 531
Holder, Eric, 363, 521
Holliday, Stuart, 273
Homeland Security Department, U.S., 319, 343, 419, 431
Honoré, Russ, 431–32
Horse Holders, 163
House of Representatives, U.S., 36, 77, 112–51, 275–76, 281, 372, 444
Abscam and, 133–34
Cheney’s campaigns for, 112–24, 127, 130, 134, 138–39, 143, 151, 180, 276, 303
Cheney’s career in, 125–37, 139–51, 154–58, 160–61, 163, 165, 167, 170, 179, 217, 242, 245–46, 264, 266, 300, 308, 312, 315, 319–20, 403, 409, 427, 446, 459–60, 522, 529
Cheney’s Defense Department nomination and, 154–55, 157–58
Cheney’s fellowship to, 38–50, 156, 302
Cheney’s vice presidency and, 306–8, 312–13
college campus protests and, 45–47
defense budgets and, 164–66
expulsions from, 126, 133–34
Ford’s career in, 72–73, 76, 78–79, 86, 91
informal social groups of, 127–28
Iran-Contra affair and, 143, 145–48, 409
Republican campaigns for leadership in, 134–35
tax cuts and, 310–13
Vietnam War and, 82 see also Congress, U.S.
House of Representative, U.S., committees and subcommittees of, 317
Appropriations, 79, 91, 125, 130–31
Armed Services, 420
Banking, 504, 507
Defense Appropriations, 91, 165
Education and Labor, 44–45, 52
Ethics, 125–26, 132–34
Intelligence, 140–42, 145, 155, 160–61, 315, 350–51, 365–66, 403, 412, 427, 459–60
Interior, 125
Judiciary, 66–67, 75, 131
Programs and Budget Authorization, 142
Rules, 128, 245
Ways and Means, 125–26, 128, 130–31, 306–7, 311–13
House Republican Conference, 135
housing market, 503–4