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Chart Illustrating the Intersecting Careers of Four Bush Advisers 

NY Times 11sep02

[ See article this chart accompanied ]

Two of the most influential and hawkish members of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, and their deputies have connections that spans seven presidencies.

 ◄------Connections        Private sector jobs         Government jobs 

 

		  I LEWIS LIBBY, 52		  PAUL D WOLFOWITZ, 58		  DICK CHENEY, 62		  DONALD H RUMSFELD, 70
ADMINISTRATION	I LEWIS LIBBY, 52	PAUL D WOLFOWITZ, 58	DICK CHENEY, 62   	DONALD H RUMSFELD, 70
   Timeline							Assist. to director	Director, Office of
		Student of Mr.		Assistant professor	Office of Economic	Economic Opportunity;
		Wolfowitz at   ------ political science	Opportunity; White ◄--► Counselor to President
Richard M.	Yale University		Yale University		House staff assistant;	Nixon; director, Cost
Nixon								Asst. director Cost of	of Living Council
1969-1974							Living Council

                                        Deputy asst dir.,       VP, Bradley-Woods       NATO ambassador        .
Gerald R				Arms Control and
Ford					Disarmament Agency	Dep. Asst. to the  ◄--► Chief of staff
1974-1977							President; White 	Secretary of Defense
								House Chief of Staff
                                                                                                               .
					Deputy Asst					President and
Jimmy 					Secretary of Defense				chief exec. officer
Carter								US rep. Wyoming		of GD Searle & Co.
1977-1981
                                                                                                               .
		State Dept, director
		of special projects	State Dept, director
		Bureau of East 	  ◄---► policy and planning
		Asian		    	asst secretary for				Reagan adviser
Ronald Reagan				East Asian and Pacific
1981-1989	Partner, Dickstein,							Senior adviser
		Shapiro & Morin		US ambassador to 				William Blair & Co.
					Indonesia
                                                                                                              .
George 		Defense Dept.		Defense Dept.	 
Bush		positions, ending  ◄--►	under secretary	◄------►  Secretary 		Positions in private
1989-1993	as deputy under		for policy		     of			business including
		secretary for policy ◄-------------------------►   defense		chairmanships of
                                                                                        General Instrument    .
					Dean and professor	Senior fellow, 		Corp., and Gilead
		Managing partner,	of international	American Enterprise	Sciences Inc.
Bill		Dechert, Price &	relations at the 	Institute
Clinton		Rhodes law firm,	Paul H Nitze School				Chairman, Commission
1993-2001	Washington		of Advanced Studies	Chairman & CEO		to Assess the Ballistic
					Johns Hopkins Univ.	Halliburton Company	Missile Threat
		Legal adviser, Cox							
		Committee on China							Chairman, commission
                                                                                        on space and military .
George W	Chief of staff to   	Deputy secretary		
Bush		Vice President 		of defense	----------------------------	Secretary of
2001-		Cheney	----------------------------------------- Vice president	Defense
                                                                                                              .

NY Times Sources: Congressional Quarterly; Department of Defense

source: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2002/09/11/national/20020911_PLAYER_GRAPHIC.html 20apr03
part of article:
On the Job and at Home, Influential Hawks' 30-Year Friendship Evolves 
ELISABETH BUMILLER and ERIC SCHMITT NY Times 11sep02

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