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Condoleezza Rice

Dick Cheney lost influence as the Bush administration moved into its second term. Here are the two men at a Pentagon ceremony in December 2006.

Who was the ‘alpha male’ inside the Bush White House?

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A new book throws out the conventional wisdom about the Bush White House. To give you an example, it quotes one source who calls Bush the “undisputed alpha male.” The book: Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House.

On second try, Susan Rice added to Obama’s foreign policy team

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Condoleezza Rice interview

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Rice goes to Pakistan

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Rice raises the stakes in India

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Democrats anxious to see Obama settle down with a nice running mate

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Every day this week at The Takeaway, we’ve been asking the same question: Is today the day Barack Obama announces his running mate? Obama’s campaign has said the presumptive pair will campaign together this Saturday, which means we’ll know who ? soon.

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President Bush on Georgians: ‘We will not cast them aside.’

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President Bush is accusing Russia of ‘bullying and intimidation’ against Georgia, saying that the people in the former Soviet republic chose freedom and ‘we will not cast them aside.’

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White House on interrogations

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The Washington Post is reporting today that the Bush Administration approved harsh interrogation techniques — such as waterboarding — in cases involving senior terrorism suspects.

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Foreign policy wish list

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If the Democrats are elected, there will be many foreign policy positions to fill.

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Implications for Russia

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The World’s Katy Clark reports on the possible repercussions facing Russia for its military intervention in Georgia.

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