Best Chief of Staff?

[Kingpoleon]

Baker, Cheney, and Emmanuel were all extremely effective. I voted Baker.

Rumsfeld and Cheney at some point switched from being foreign policy realists like Ford, Kissinger, Powell, and Rice, to being neoconservatives. In the 1970s, though, they were pretty great.

[Kingpoleon]

Rumsfeld and Cheney at some point switched from being foreign policy realists like Ford, Kissinger, Powell, and Rice, to being neoconservatives. In the 1970s, though, they were pretty great.

As early as their first period in power--that is, the mid 1970's, and the first time that is relevant here--they stood notably to Kissinger's "right".

Not really. Phil Crane and Alexander Haig were the main two hawks at the time.

[Kingpoleon]

Rumsfeld and Cheney at some point switched from being foreign policy realists like Ford, Kissinger, Powell, and Rice, to being neoconservatives. In the 1970s, though, they were pretty great.

As early as their first period in power--that is, the mid 1970's, and the first time that is relevant here--they stood notably to Kissinger's "right".

Not really. Phil Crane and Alexander Haig were the main two hawks at the time.

Fascinating.

I apologize if there's a misunderstanding - Cheney and Rumsfeld, at the time, pretended to be moderates/business conservatives and were hardly critics of Kissinger.