Paul O'Neill

...regime change, that was where the policy debate was heading. The inquiry continues today. According to former US Secretary Paul O'Neill, the Bushies were discussing it more than a year before that. Within months of these...

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...of what was going on," says Young. One of the best books: "The Price of Loyalty," a chronicle of former Bush treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's two years in the Bush administration, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind. As for...

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...secretaries in recent history-along with David Kennedy under Nixon, Michael Blumenthal under Carter, Don Regan under Reagan and Paul O'Neill under George W. Bush. This time, however, the stakes are much higher; a president in crisis will and...

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...War raged. From Live Aid, Band Aid and even Farm Aid in the 1980s to Bono's tour of Africa with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill earlier this decade, pop-star involvement in everything from politics to poverty reduction is...

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...Deputy Paul Wolfowitz, had long desired to invade Iraq. After leaving the George W. Bush administration, former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said that an attack on Iraq had been planned since Bush's inauguration, and that the first...

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...heads of Treasury, Paul O'Neill and John W. Snow, came out of the old industrial economy. Before moving to Treasury, O'Neill was head of Alcoa Inc. (AA ), the aluminum giant, and Snow led the railroad giant CSX Corp. (CSX ) -- two...

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In a quote that helped fuel perceptions that the administration was not committed to taming budget shortfalls, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has said that Vice President Dick Cheney once told him that "deficits don't matter."

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...to "play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security..." After leaving the administration, former Bush treasury secretary Paul O'Neill said that "contingency planning" for an attack on Iraq was planned since the inauguration and that the...

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...presidency. Paulson, sworn in on July 10 as the 74th treasury secretary, wasted no time signaling he planned to follow a far different playbook than the one used by Bush's first two treasury chiefs, Paul O'Neill and John Snow. O'Neill, the...

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...elections). This is our due." A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired. The vice president's office had no immediate comment, but John Snow, who replaced O'Neill, insisted that deficits "do matter" to the administration.

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