The lobbying firm boasts the services of two onetime foreign policy hands of President Bush: Ambassador Robert Blackwill, the former deputy national security adviser who was Bush's envoy to Iraq and helped form Allawi's interim government in 2004, and Philip Zelikow, former counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
George Bush's was Robert Mosbacher, the finance chairman of the 1988 Bush campaign.
Despite efforts by the then-Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Foggy Bottom counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, to try to find some programmatic accommodation with the Russians, in the end President Bush stood firm.
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Obama has also asked President Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, to remain on the job.
Mr Bush and his trade supremo, Robert Zoellick, have been quick to exploit this.
But President George Bush and his trade representative, Robert Zoellick, have made important headway in two areas.
Early speculation about a successor centred on Robert Zoellick, Mr Bush's former trade representative, who was known to be keen on the post.
Mr Bush's trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, argues nevertheless that America is ready to slash subsidies if those countries with higher levels of support cut back proportionately more, to produce a level playing field.
Mr Bush's trade supremo, Robert Zoellick, and the commerce secretary, Don Evans, presented the new plan as the logical culmination of the step-by-step reduction of trade tariffs that has taken place since the end of the second world war.
Dr. Kim is nearly certain to become the next World Bank president, succeeding Robert Zoellick, a former Bush administration official whose five-year term ends in June.
And of course there are many options for Michael Steele as well in the business world, and of course, as Robert said, in the Bush Cabinet or perhaps in the private sector.
The Bush administration can only respond, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates did in Munich, that one Cold War is enough.
Then, after former vice president Dick Cheney used a speech on October 22 to accuse the Obama administration of "dithering" on Afghanistan, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs responded by claiming that the Bush administration did not care about U.S. troops.
Yet Bush's resoluteness aside, there are people like Robert Gordon, president of investment firm Twenty-First Securities, musing that when it comes to taxes, the news from now on is likely to be unpleasant.
This idea has been championed by conservative policy entrepreneurs such as Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review and Robert Stein, a veteran of George W. Bush's Treasury Department, yet it has met with fierce resistance from The Wall Street Journal editorial board, which sees it as an unjustifiable tax giveaway that is an unhelpful distraction from the need to cut marginal tax rates.
Robert Mueller was originally nominated by President George W. Bush as FBI Director on July 5, 2001 and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on August 2, 2001.
" Robert Zoellick, another adviser, says that when he has sent Bush briefing papers, the Governor "wouldn't spend time on the outline.
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