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Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, left, and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, right, arrive at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, to meet with President Bush. The President is met with a group of former State Department and Defense Department leaders to brief them on Iraq
President Bush pauses for a photograph on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, with present and former Secretaries of State and Defense in the Oval Office at the White House. Bush met with the bipartisan group to discuss the war in Iraq. From left is former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State James Baker, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State George Schultz, former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen.
President Bush, center, meets Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, with present and former Secretaries of State and Defense in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. Left to right are Secretary of State Donald H. Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell
President Bush, meets with present and former Secretaries of State and Defense in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006. Seated left to right are Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
President Bush, right center, is flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, as he meets, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, with present and former Secretaries of State and Defense in the Roosevelt Room at the White House
President Bush speaks with members of the media, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, as he met with present and former Secretaries of State and Defense in the Roosevelt Room at the White House
President George W. Bush speaks while surrounded by past and present secretaries of state and defense after their meeting about the war in Iraq in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington January 5, 2006. Facing the camera are (L-R) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, former secretary of defense William Cohen (under former U.S. president Bill Clinton), General George Casey, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of state Colin Powell.
President George W. Bush (seated left of center) speaks with reporters following a meeting with former secretaries of defense and state about the war in Iraq, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Seated at the table clockwise from the President are: former secretaries of state Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Lawrence Eagleburger, James Baker III, George P. Schultz, Alexander Haig and former defense secretaries Robert S. McNamara, Melvin Laird, James Schlesinger, Harold Brown, Frank Carlucci, William Perry, General George Casey, Commander of US forces in Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Former Nixon U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is surrounded by reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, January 5, 2006. U.S. President George W. Bush earlier held a meeting about the war in Iraq with past and present secretaries of state and defense