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New Rule No. 5 Get a rabbi. Preferably one named Cheney.
Before Rumsfeld surrendered last week, he enjoyed stalwart support from the White House. Dick Cheney, once a Rumsfeld protege, came to his rescue. Rumsfeld is "going to have to break some china, but he's just the guy to do it," Cheney told the Washington Post two weeks ago. But that support may be softening. "There's some concern about him going native," says a senior Administration official who fears Rumsfeld is "falling into the old habit" of letting the uniforms dictate to the civilians.
But what clearly has the White House official steamed most is the way the military has short-circuited Rumsfeld's reforms. "We're giving them the largest increase in spending since 1984, and they're out there complaining!" says the official. "If they think they can get more money out of Congress, more power to them. All they want is more money--more money and no reform."
--With reporting by James Carney/Washington