Kerry Aide Talked to Retired Guard Officer
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At the behest of CBS, an adviser to John Kerry said he talked to a central figure in the controversy over President Bush's National Guard service shortly before disputed documents were released.
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Shortly before undergoing successful open-heart surgery this summer, a man who knows something about debating an incumbent president named Bush was asked how John Kerry should conduct tonight&#39;s televised encounter with George W.
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WASHINGTON - One of the men who helped put Democrat John Kerry on the defensive over his military record during the Vietnam war is answering questions about his own service during that conflict.    During an Oval Office conversation in 1971, John O'Neill tells President Nixon he was in Cambodia in a swift boat during the war - a claim that is at odds with O'Neill's recent statements that he wasn't in the country...
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Vietnam veteran who had served with Senator John Kerry in a Swift boat group broke a 35-year silence this weekend to back Mr. Kerry&#39;s version of events from their mission together, and to
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AUSTIN, Texas - Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes' recollections over how he helped President Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War have evolved over the years from fuzzy to distinct, with him now expressing remorse for what he did.    Barnes, a Democrat who was one of the most powerful politicians in Texas in the '60s and '70s, said at an Austin campaign rally for Democrat John Kerry that he was "ashamed" for helping Bush and sons of other wealthy Texans avoid service in Vietnam...
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Governors, campaign advisers and former presidential foes could end up in top Cabinet posts in a John Kerry administration, perhaps joined by a retired general and even a Republican or two.
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A campaign adviser for John Kerry told CNN he spoke with retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett -- the man who CBS said provided them with disputed documents -- days before the &quot;60 Minutes&quot; piece aired and after a call from a
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John Kerry told a National Guard conference that President Bush had deceived them when he presented an optimistic picture of the war in Iraq two days before.
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TIPTON, Iowa  - Democratic White House challenger  John Kerry accused President Bush of mismanaging the war in  Iraq after a former top aide said the U.S. paid the price for  not deploying enough troops after last year's invasion.
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A former National Guard commander who CBS News said had helped convince it of the authenticity of documents raising new questions about President Bush&#39;s
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A National Guardsman who asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a bold question about armor on war vehicles went to the microphone after consulting with a Tennessee reporter.
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(National-NBC) Oct. 25, 2004 - With just a week left in the presidential campaign Democratic nominee John Kerry got help Monday from a former President Bill Clinton as both the Massachusetts senator and his
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LAS VEGAS Speaking to National Guard members and veterans at a politically charged moment, President George W. Bush acknowledged the hardships the war in Iraq had caused Guard members and their families, and assailed Senator John Kerry for arguing that
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BOSTON - Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry said President Bush has a secret plan to call up more National Guard and Reserve troops immediately after the election, an allegation that the Bush campaign called "false and ridiculous."   Kerry issued the charge while campaigning Friday in Albuquerque, N.M., as he criticized the president of glossing over a worsening conflict in Iraq.   "He won't tell us what congressional leaders are now saying, that this administration is planning yet another substantial call-up of reservists and Guard units immediately after the election," Kerry said...
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A commander of a Navy boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence and defended the Democratic presidential nominee&#39;s war record against attacks by other veterans.
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Going into the second presidential debate in St. Louis today, John Kerry&#39;s anti-Iraq war case against President Bush has been made over the past week by current and former Bush administration officials.
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WASHINGTON - Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.    The former POWs in the ad, Kenneth Cordier and Paul Galanti, serve on the VA's 12-member Former POW Advisory Committee...