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Goldwater-Nichols and, 170–71
surge and, 451, 453
Marsh, Jack, 71–72, 75, 81, 92, 107, 138–39, 169
Matalin, Mary, 9, 306, 338, 530
Matthews, Chris, 424
Mayaguez crisis, 83–84
Mazar-e-Sharif, 344, 346, 353
Medicare, 276, 282
Medvedev, Dmitri, 514
Meese, Ed, 144
Meet the Press, 145, 204–5, 292, 334–36, 400, 409, 415–16
Meyer, Joe, 24, 31, 119
Michel, Bob, 134–35, 140, 143–45, 154–55
Michigan, 132–34, 425, 459
Bush-Cheney campaign and, 272, 287
Diggs case and, 132–33
Ford’s congressional career and, 72, 76, 86
Middle East, 55, 84, 136, 142, 182, 199, 282, 327, 345, 369, 371–81, 415, 470, 477–81, 514
Cheney’s trips to, 189–96, 371–80 see also Israeli-Palestinian crisis
Miers, Harriet, 322, 324
military commissions, 356–57, 361
million equation model, 339
Mineta, Norm, 2–3, 300
missiles, 28, 195, 491
ABM Treaty and, 324–26
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 163–64
cruise, 206, 211, 332
Iraq and, 182–84, 214–17, 221, 365–66, 383, 389, 392, 394, 399–400, 432
MX, 163–64
North Korea and, 467, 489
Patriot, 183, 211, 214, 216–17
Peacekeeper, 232–34
Poland and, 514–15 see also Scud missiles
Mississippi, 97, 429, 431
Mitchell, Andrea, 259–60, 406
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh (KSM), 419, 500
interrogation of, 358–60, 521
Mojaddedi, Sibghatullah, 427
Morality in Foreign Policy plank, 99–100
mortgage-backed securities, 503–7
mountain man tradition, 21–22
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 85–86
Mubarak, Hosni, 183, 192–93, 375
Mullen, Mike, 459, 485
Murphy, Robert, 54–55
Murtha, John, 134, 165, 438
Musharraf, Pervez, 418–19, 480, 498, 500
mutually assured destruction (MAD), 325
Myers, Dick, 336, 396–98
Myers, Ozzie, 133
Nashville, Tenn., 289, 389, 454–55
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 54–55
National Center for Education in Politics (NCEP), 33–34, 41
National Guard, U.S., 45, 53, 453
and deployment of troops to Persian Gulf, 204–6
Hurricane Katrina and, 429–30
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs):
on Iran, 478–79
on Iraq, 365–68, 391–92, 414
National Security Agency (NSA), 315, 348–53, 360–61, 403
National Security Council (NSC), 145, 170–71, 174, 179, 199, 329–34, 338, 358, 385, 390–91, 396, 481, 513, 530
Afghanistan and, 332, 334, 340, 344
Cheney’s Defense Department nomination and, 153, 161–62
and deployment of troops to Persian Gulf, 187–88
Ford administration changes and, 89–91
Iraqi Freedom and, 369–70, 386, 439, 441, 449, 454
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 183–84, 186
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and, 380–81, 384
9/11 and, 8–9, 329–30
Soviet collapse and, 231
Syrian nuclear program and, 471, 473
and War on Terror, 330–32
Natrona County High School (NCHS), 23–24, 267–68
Navy, U.S., 83, 150–51, 163, 185, 195, 327, 354, 530
A-12 construction and, 236–37
and deployment of troops to Persian Gulf, 191–93
Desert Storm and, 211, 214, 221, 227
Goldwater-Nichols and, 170–71
Panamanian crisis and, 174, 178
NBC, 145, 265, 297, 334, 406, 408
Nebraska, 12–20, 243, 253
New Hampshire, 95, 153, 305, 508
New Haven, Conn., 26–27
New Orleans, La.:
Hurricane Katrina and, 429–31
Republican convention in, 148, 151
New York, 68, 80, 128, 135, 176, 212, 227, 302, 319, 356, 410–11, 475
Ford’s presidential campaign and, 90, 96
9/11 and, 1–2, 329–30, 335–36, 341–44
New York Times, The, 81, 85, 104–5, 251
Bush-Cheney campaign and, 274–75
Iraqi uranium acquisition and, 403–4
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 352–53
and U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, 456–58, 460–61
Nicaragua, 144–46, 416
Nicholas, Dave, 112–13, 180
Nicholas, Jack and Alice, 113
Nidal, Abu, 367
Nielsen, Mark, 275–76
Niger, 402–6
Nimitz, Chester, 469
9/11, 1–10, 225, 306, 326–37, 361–63, 384, 393, 414, 436, 499–500, 502, 522
Afghanistan and, 332, 334, 337, 343, 347, 367–68, 497
casualties on, 2–4, 335–36, 368–69, 377, 388, 446–47
clearing skies on, 2–3, 6–8, 300
communications problems on, 2, 4, 6–8
enhanced interrogation techniques and, 358, 361–62
Ground Zero of, 341–44, 519
investigations on intelligence failures in, 5, 405
Iraq and, 368–69, 415–16
and leadership succession and survival,