In My Time - Dick Cheney [290]
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,