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510 approximately $20 billion: Robert J. Samuelson, “Why TARP Has Been a Success Story,” Newsweek, March 28, 2011.
514 Putin seemed to long for them: Richard B. Cheney, Remarks at the 2006 Vilnius Conference, May 4, 2006, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060504–1.html.
514 make them members of NATO: Richard B. Cheney, Remarks at the Ambrosetti Forum, September 6, 2008, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080906–1.html.
523 in writing this book: Central Intelligence Agency, “Khalid Shaykh Muhammad: Preeminent Source on Al-Qa’ida,” July 13, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/Khalid_Shayhk_Muhammad.pdf; Central Intelligence Agency, “Detainee Reporting Pivotal for the War Against Al-Qa’ida,” June 3, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/Detainee_Reporting.pdf.
INDEX
A-10s, 216, 219, 223
A-12s, 236–37
Abbas, Abu, 367
Abbot, Steve, 319
Abdullah, Crown Prince, 397
and deployment of U.S. troops to Persian Gulf, 190, 377
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and, 375, 377–78
Abdullah II, King of Jordan, 374–75
Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 362
Abizaid, John, 435–36
Abkhazia, 513
Abscam scandal, 133–34
Abu Ghraib prison, 420–22
AC-130s, 177, 243, 345
Achille Lauro, 367
Across the Wide Missouri (De Voto), 22
Adams, John, 271, 494
Adams, Tim, 273
Addington, David, 9, 162, 175, 244, 255, 290, 306, 338, 495, 497, 530–31
on leadership succession and survival planning, 320–22
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 348–51
Afghanistan, 363, 418–21, 443, 452–53, 470, 496–502, 511–12
free elections in, 426–27
liberation of, 346–47
9/11 and, 332, 334, 337, 343, 347, 367–68, 497
Pakistan and, 346, 480, 498–500, 502
reconstruction in, 370, 372, 427, 499
Soviet Union and, 142, 201, 346–47, 427, 496
U.S. withdrawal from, 501–2
violence in, 497–98 see also Enduring Freedom, Operation
Agreed Framework, 493
Agriculture Department, U.S., 20, 94, 167
Ahern, Kara, 530
Air Force, U.S., 31–32, 89, 162, 177, 185, 195–97, 199, 229
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 163–64
and deployment of troops to Persian Gulf, 191–92, 196
Desert Storm and, 196, 211, 214, 219, 227
Goldwater-Nichols and, 170–71
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, 342–43
Alito, Samuel, 324, 515
al-Kibar nuclear reactor, 466–69, 471–72, 476, 484, 491–92
Allbaugh, Joe, 252–55, 267
Allegretti, Cristina, 531
Allen, Thad, 431–32
Alliance for American Leadership, 243–44
al Qaeda, 329–30, 399, 447
Afghanistan and, 332, 334, 340, 344, 347, 353–55, 368, 384, 418–19, 497–98, 500–501
capture, imprisonment, interrogation, and killing of, 341, 353–59, 419, 434, 497, 500–501, 521, 523–24
Iraq and, 344, 368, 377, 392–93, 414–15, 434–36, 450, 455, 458, 463–64
9/11 and, 9–10, 349
Pakistan and, 418–19, 498, 500, 523
WMD sought by, 344–45, 368, 374, 384, 414
Ambrosetti Forum, 514
American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 129, 241, 257, 441, 483, 522, 530–31
American Flight 77, 5–6
American International Group (AIG), 505
American Political Science Association (APSA), 38–39, 42–43, 48
Andrews Air Force Base, 5–6, 54, 65, 107–8, 189, 193–94, 271
Bush’s departure from, 519–20
Andropov, Yuri, 515
Angleton, James Jesus, 142–43
Anies, Gus, 531
anthrax, 341, 345, 384–85, 394
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, 324–26
Apache helicopters, 211, 222, 228
Aquino, Corazon, 173–74
Arab League, 54, 192–93, 373
Arafat, Yasser, 373, 377–81, 384
Arens, Moshe:
Desert Storm and, 207, 210–11, 214–16
and Iraqi threat to Israel, 182–83, 211, 214–16
Arlington National Cemetery, 226–27, 271
Armitage, Rich, 252, 381–82, 387, 407
arms control, 156, 202, 233–34, 324–26, 388, 491
arms procurement, 156, 162, 165–66, 236–37
Armstrong, Anne, 91, 101, 248–50
Armstrong, Tobin, 250
Army, U.S., 13, 55, 126, 161, 169, 172, 200, 217–19, 411, 439