In My Time - Dick Cheney [297]
shootdown order on, 3–5
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 348–49, 353
U.S. responses to, 319, 330–32, 334, 336, 339–41, 343, 348, 419, 519
Vice President’s Residence and, 326–27
Nixon, Richard, 43–44, 47, 51–55, 69–72, 79, 119–20, 187, 189, 242, 530
Ford’s administration changes and, 89, 91
OEO and, 44, 52
pardon of, 69–70, 74–75, 77, 82, 86, 103
presidential campaigns of, 43, 58–59, 64, 97, 104
and price and wage controls, 59–62
resignation of, 66–67, 74, 138
Rumsfeld’s relationship with, 51–52, 64
Vietnam War and, 35, 53, 59, 82, 84
Watergate scandal and, 66, 69
No New Starts mandate, 80
Noriega, Manuel, 168, 172–75, 177–78
North, Oliver, 145–46
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 27, 180, 238, 247, 331, 379, 502
former Soviet Union and, 428, 513–15
Rumsfeld’s tenure at, 64, 66, 68–69
Northern Alliance, 332, 336, 340–41, 344–46, 353–54
Norton, Gale, 300
Novak, Robert, 74, 152–53, 167
Plame case and, 406–7
nuclear weapons, 7, 129, 201, 418–20, 465–79, 513
arms control and, 233–34, 324–26, 491
and attempted coup against Gorbachev, 230–31
Desert Storm and, 196, 220–21, 227
Iranian development of, 326, 419, 465, 468, 470–71, 477–79, 491–92
Iraqi development of, 182, 184, 227, 364–65, 367, 383, 389, 392–93, 402–7, 412, 470, 472
North Korean development of, 326, 419, 465–70, 472–77, 479, 481–93
proliferation of, 318, 419–20, 465–73, 476, 482, 484–88, 490–93
Syrian development of, 465–73, 476, 482, 484, 487, 491–93
targeting of, 160, 232–33
terrorists and, 330, 344–45, 369, 374
Nunn, Louie, 52
Nunn, Sam, 129, 158, 205, 385
Obama, Barack, 255, 309, 313, 357, 455, 514, 522–24
enhanced interrogation techniques and, 362–63, 512, 520–24
financial crisis and, 508–9, 511
Guantanamo and, 355–56, 520, 522–23
inauguration of, 517–18
North Korean nuclear program and, 486, 489, 493
presidential campaign of, 508–9, 516, 520
on withdrawing from Afghanistan, 501–2
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 323
Odierno, Ray, 455–58, 463
O’Donnell, Terry, 71, 76, 93, 162, 244, 290, 530–31
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), 48–57
Cheney’s work for, 49–54, 56–57, 72
Rumsfeld and, 44–45, 48–53, 55–56
state-level relationships of, 50, 52–53
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 63, 79–80, 165, 273, 298, 394, 502–3
Ohio, 158, 425
Cheney’s vice presidential campaigns and, 272, 278, 280–81
oil, oil fields, 316, 499, 513
Cheney’s vice presidential candidacy and, 263, 266
and deployment of U.S. troops to Persian Gulf, 187, 194
Desert Storm and, 195, 400
Halliburton and, 248–49, 263
Iraqi Freedom and, 383, 399–400, 432
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 182–84, 197–98
North Korean nuclear program and, 473, 475
regulating prices of, 60–61, 63
oil-for-food program, 226, 366
Oklahoma City terrorist attack, 318, 385
Olmert, Ehud, 471–72
Oman, 194–95, 376
Omar, Mullah, 344
O’Meara, Sean, 531–32
O’Neill, Paul, 79, 339, 382
departure from administration of, 394–95
Treasury Department appointment of, 298–99
O’Neill, Tip, 128, 136–37, 140, 149
Oresko, Nicholas, 301
Oriabure, Stephannie, 530
Ortega, Daniel, 144
Osirak nuclear reactor, 182, 227, 472
Owens, Bill, 158
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 163, 170, 172, 175
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 183, 185
Owens, Chachi, 61
Pace, Pete, 441, 449, 451, 459
Pakistan, 362, 418–20, 452
Afghanistan and, 346, 480, 498–500, 502
al Qaeda and, 418–19, 498, 500, 523
capturing terrorists and, 357–59, 419, 500
Panama, 155
attempted coup in, 172–74, 179
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and, 168–69, 172–79
U.S. invasion of, 173, 175–79
Panama Canal, 116, 168
Panetta, Leon, 517, 522
Pashtuns, 340, 346
Patriot Act, 348
Paulson, Hank, 395, 503–4, 506–7, 510
Peacemakers, The (Healy), 156
Pearl Harbor, 136, 205, 469
Pekkanen, John, 151
Pelosi, Nancy, 351, 444
financial crisis and, 507, 509
on Hussein, 365–66
Pentagon, see Defense Department, U.S. Perkins, Carl, 52
Perry, Elizabeth (granddaughter), 281, 286, 297, 338, 386, 422, 512, 532
Perry, Grace (granddaughter), 422, 512, 532
Perry, Kate (granddaughter), 243, 281, 284,