Out of the Oval Office by 9, Cheney walks in his polished maroon cowboy boots down the hall to his West Wing office, where he huddles with his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and other senior staff members to go over the day's schedule.
His two top campaign aides, Terry Nelson and John Weaver, resigned abruptly; his chief of staff, Mark Salter, removed himself to the sidelines.
He clearly could not function without a strong chief of staff to shield him from the day-to-day management of the bureaucracy and to implement his dicision.
"I knew [House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Goss's chief of staff, but no one ever called me," he said.
"I got in her limousine, and she was talking to her then chief of staff, laughing and having the best time," Walker recalls.
He (President Bush) should call in his chief of staff and hand him a one- sentence letter: Dear John: Please quit. Yours, Poppy. Or, better yet, Sununu should beat his boss to the punch and hand in his resignation.
The state controlled daily,The Herald, quoted the army chief of staff, Major General Martin Chedondo, as saying that all soldiers should vote for President Mugabe or quit the army.
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