James Baker

...to nail down the deals. Just take a gander at trips planned for Richard Nixon by Henry Kissinger or for George H. W. Bush by James Baker. Obama's travels were a chance to settle or make concrete progress on thorny issues like...

In this article: Barack Obama, China, Asia, The Daily Beast, Leslie H. Gelb, Beijing, Washington, George H. W. Bush, and Council on Foreign Relations

...schizophrenic alter ego; George Shultz was a strong policy voice in the Reagan Administration; James Baker had clout because he was George H.W. Bush's best friend and a world-class dealmaker. Most of the others have been frustrated or...

In this article: Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, Jerusalem, Colin Powell, Department of State, and George Mitchell

The relationship with Mr Obama is even more important. Perhaps the most successful secretary of state of the past 20 years was James Baker, who was the closest to the president he served, George H. W. Bush. A bond between president and...

In this article: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, White House, Washington, Palestine, Vogue magazine, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

...to further it by legislation; he also chose George H.W. Bush to be his vice president and allowed the ultrapragmatic James A. Baker III to run the White House. " MSNBC's First Read blog further observed that Reagan "raised taxes" and...

In this article: Ronald Reagan, Evan Thomas, E-mail, Tax, Newsweek, GOP, James A. Baker III, George H.W. Bush, White House, and Msnbc

...oil and gas business. Mosbacher, of course, is the third most prominent Republican in town, trailing only George H. W. Bush and James A. Baker, having served as Secretary of Commerce in the Bush 41 administration. Locke identifies himself as...

In this article: Celinda Lake, E mail, Houston, Robert Mosbacher, and Washington, DC

Lilley was well known for dispensing frank, illusion-free advice. A month after Tiananmen, he told U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III that a decision to send U.S. navy ships on an official visit to Shanghai in May 1989 had been a bad...

In this article: James Lilley, United States, China, Beijing, Washington, Shanghai, Cancer, Standard Oil, and James Baker III

...nothing to further it by legislation; he also chose George H.W. Bush to be his vice president and allowed the ultrapragmatic James A. Baker III to run the White House. The "Gipper" talked tough about the Russians--while doing more than any...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, GOP, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, White House, George H.W. Bush, and Al Gore