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...The group was the driving force behind the so-called Gingrich Revolution and secured early conservative backing for George W Bush’s presidential aspirations....
...David W GreenLondon NW3, UK...
...Kissinger served under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, two Republican presidents....
...At the same time, McConnell is stepping down from his leadership role and is expected to be replaced by a more Trump-friendly successor....
...A generation has passed since George W Bush set the US against the “Axis of Evil”. At the time, the moral absolutism of the word “evil” aroused most of the liberal derision....
...Penang, barrister Robert Hamlyn and his wife Lesley are awaiting a visitation: Robert’s old friend Willie, now an internationally acclaimed playwright, short story writer and novelist — in other words, W...
...Nixon was pardoned by his vice-president and successor, Gerald Ford, in the interests of moving the nation past the unprecedented political scandal of Watergate....
...Remember, you know, George H.W. Bush when he ran for reelection, 92 Pat Buchanan challenged him in New Hampshire, got 24 per cent of the vote, and everyone thought that George Bush was dead....
...Michael W McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford, on the other hand, disputes the assumption that Trump’s misconduct, however grievous, did actually rise to the level of the “insurrection...
...“I think that McCarthy has taken a relatively weak hand and played it extraordinarily well,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former official in the George W Bush administration who is now president of the American...
...Mitch McConnell famously complained about the weakness of his party’s Senate candidates....
...As the party’s Senate prospects wane, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, is probably the most frustrated person in Washington....
...This “despicable human being” had “finally discredited himself”, said Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader....
...For a certain kind of establishment Republican, David McCormick has the perfect CV: a West Point graduate and former Army ranger with a PhD from Princeton, several years in the George W Bush administration...
...In 2006, when George W Bush decried the US’s “addiction to oil”, Americans burnt through 20.7mn barrels a day of petroleum. Demand this year will be almost identical, according to federal forecasters....
...After Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal, Rumsfeld returned to Washington and worked for Nixon’s successor, Gerald Ford, as White House chief of staff....
...When Democrats used the debt ceiling as a weapon against a similarly well-positioned George W Bush in 2006, it was he who suffered. Today it is Biden....
...Potential Republican foils including George W Bush, James Baker and Nikki Haley, Tye says, have remained on the sidelines, and those who have stood up to Trump — Cheney and Senator Mitt Romney — have been...
...W in Geneva....
...During his career, Rumsfeld served in myriad roles, including as a congressman, Nato ambassador and White House chief of staff to Gerald Ford, who later made him defence secretary....
...GSA confirmed that it had not yet begun the transition process, but insisted it was adhering to “all requirements under the law”, citing the 2000 transition — during the contested election between George W...
...But Nixon’s resignation in 1974 brought him back home, first to run President Gerald Ford’s transition team and then as his White House chief of staff, with Cheney as deputy and later successor....
...Trump was impeached, or charged, for inciting an insurrection in a bipartisan House vote last month, with 10 Republican members, including Liz Cheney, a senior Republican and the daughter of George W Bush...
...On Wednesday Biden is due to host the four congressional leaders — including Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, and Republicans Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy...
...This week, 10 Republicans broke ranks and voted for impeachment and Mr McConnell has left open the possibility of voting for conviction....
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