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Michael Joseph Dugan [1] (born February 22, 1937) is a retired American general.He was briefly the 13th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (USAF) for 79 days in 1990 until he was dismissed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney after telling reporters that the U.S. military planned to target Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, his family, and even his mistress in the 1991 Gulf War.
Cheney was Assistant to the President and White House Deputy Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford from December 1974 to November 1975. [33] [34] [35] When Rumsfeld was named Secretary of Defense, Cheney became White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Rumsfeld. [25] He later was campaign manager for Ford's 1976 presidential campaign. [36]
And Dick Cheney, the former two-term vice president, White House chief of staff, secretary of Defense and congressman, said last week that he will vote for the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris.
The chief of staff of the Air Force is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as prescribed by 10 U.S.C. § 151. When performing his JCS duties, the chief of staff is directly responsible to the secretary of defense. Like the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of staff is an administrative position, with no operational command ...
The campaign has long focused on these voters, hiring the former chief of staff to Rep. Adam Kinzinger ― like Cheney, a Republican who broke with Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection ― to serve ...
September 7, 2024 at 1:38 PM. Democrats have welcomed an unexpected new ally into the big tent, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, who two decades ago was viewed by many on the left as ...
Taliban. al-Qaeda. The attempted assassination of Dick Cheney was a 2007 suicide attack that killed up to 23 people and injured 20 more at the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, while Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, was visiting. [1] The attack occurred inside one of the security gates surrounding the heavily guarded base 60 ...
v. t. e. Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. [ 3 ]