Sources said Rumsfeld informally offered the job to Franks after his first choice, Gen.
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His first choice was taken in August 1888 and shows troops using the moors for training.
His approach to consulting was heavily influenced by the legal profession, which had been his first choice of career.
His first choice would be Carlos Reutemann, the governor of Santa Fe province.
Ms Ward said that the consultant made Dr Ontiveros his first choice and she was offered the job subject to references.
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It was an astute move on Mr Livingstone's part to make Ms Gavron his first choice for the Number Two slot.
An un-named English Premiership club are also said to be interested in the 21-year-old's signature, but Khizanishvili insists Rangers are his first choice.
Capello is confident that Cole, his first choice left-back, will be fit for the World Cup finals but says Bridge will deputise until then.
He wrote code for his site, Auction Web, at age 28 and renamed it eBay after his first choice, Echo Bay, was already taken.
The old ways still worked in 1994: after his first choice, Luis Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated, Mr Salinas picked Ernesto Zedillo as his successor.
His first choice was to renovate and reopen the existing school.
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His first choice was architecture, but the counselor didn't think Mr. Kane was strong enough in science and math and steered him instead toward industrial design.
However, he insists Rangers were always his first choice and says manager Walter Smith's decision to stay on for one final season was also a big factor.
There are questions as to whether or not he really did choose to come here or if it was as a result of the controversy surrounding his first choice.
What O'Neill would probably regard as close to his first choice laid siege on the Suduva goal from the start as Sutton, Neil Lennon, Larsson and Petrov forced saves from Gytis Padihanskas.
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp had been widely tipped as the favorite to replace Capello, and England's star striker Wayne Rooney tweeted on the day of Capello's resignation that the Spurs boss would be his first choice.
Last season Johnson found his first-choice XV decimated by injuries picked up in the early weeks of the Premiership season.
Capello was delighted that the likes of Downing and Agbonlahor put their hands up for a place in his first-choice team.
The Swede is expected to pick his first-choice strike partnership of Liverpool's Michael Owen and Everton's Wayne Rooney with Emile Heskey and Alan Smith on the bench.
Johnson's squad has been decimated by injuries and at no point in the autumn series did he had a chance to pick his first-choice team, but he insisted the games against Australia, Argentina and New Zealand had been a worthwhile exercise.
Partly because of last week's Super 14 final between the Bulls and the Stormers, Springboks coach Peter de Villiers opted to give enforced rest to the bulk of his current first-choice players.
First came his choice of Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff.
His first and surely preferred choice is to persuade Mr Putin that letting him serve another term would suit everybody in their clan.
Smith had made his Scotland debut earlier that year in the Calcutta Cup match against England and was a first-choice for his country for eight years, winning the Five Nations in 1999 and leading them throughout the 2001 Autumn Internationals.
Islanders coach Jack Capuano made a rather unconventional lineup change by inserting the big forward Brock Nelson, a first-round draft choice three years ago, into his first NHL game Saturday.
Former world champion McRae, competing in his first rally of the year, blamed a wrong choice of tyres for ending his chances.
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And, by the way, his choice of partners, first Hellman Friedman, founded by my late and most marvelous cousin F.
Livi chairman Dominic Keane had said that David McEwan would be given his chance to take over as first choice and was again in goal on Tuesday at Firhill.
In order to prevent a defendant from retaining a defense team of his choice, federal prosecutors will first freeze his assets, even though a jury has yet to find them to have been illegally obtained.
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