11.22.2004
White House Letter: In the New Bush Cabinet, Loyalty Trumps Celebrity (NYTimes.com)
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: November 22, 2004
WASHINGTON
President Bush appears to have picked his new cabinet with the view that he has plenty of friends and doesn't need to make new ones. Put another way, he is now the re-elected president of the United States and he is free to get rid of the political celebrities and surround himself with the people he wants.
And so he has. As anyone who watched the job-hopping last week in Washington knows, the president promoted not just men and women he knows and likes. He elevated the most loyal of loyalists, staff members he has worked with for decades, most reaching far back to Texas.
So Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the international star who had deep misgivings about the war in Iraq, is out. Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser who was Mr. Bush's foreign policy tutor in the 2000 campaign and begins sentences to reporters with "The president firmly believes," is in.
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Published: November 22, 2004
WASHINGTON
President Bush appears to have picked his new cabinet with the view that he has plenty of friends and doesn't need to make new ones. Put another way, he is now the re-elected president of the United States and he is free to get rid of the political celebrities and surround himself with the people he wants.
And so he has. As anyone who watched the job-hopping last week in Washington knows, the president promoted not just men and women he knows and likes. He elevated the most loyal of loyalists, staff members he has worked with for decades, most reaching far back to Texas.
So Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the international star who had deep misgivings about the war in Iraq, is out. Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser who was Mr. Bush's foreign policy tutor in the 2000 campaign and begins sentences to reporters with "The president firmly believes," is in.
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