Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace

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by Leon Panetta

Exchange Stabilization Fund, 155

  Face the Nation, 404–5

  Fair, Harry, 21

  Fair Housing Act of 1968, 28

  Faubus, Orval, 36

  FBI, 201, 228, 259, 278–79, 439

  Russian sleeper agents and, 281–84

  Federal Credit Union, 161

  Federal Reserve, 106–7, 109

  Feinstein, Dianne, 184–85, 195–96, 206–7, 266

  interrogation policies studied by, 232–35

  Finch, Bob, 34–35, 38–40, 42–45

  509th Bomb Wing, 311

  fiscal discipline, 121

  Flaherty, Steven, letters of, 420–21

  Fleishman-Hillard, 183

  Flight 93 National Memorial, 426–27

  Flournoy, Michèle, 327, 338, 372, 376, 393

  Foley, Martha, 137

  Foley, Tom, 95, 119–20, 126, 143, 150

  food stamps, 65, 75–77, 177

  Ford, Billy, 83–84

  Ford, Gerald, 52, 54

  Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, 272

  foreign aid, cuts to, 162, 166

  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 229

  Fort Benning, 20

  Fort Hood, Soldier Readiness Center at, 245, 386

  Fort Ord:

  closure of, 78–81, 182, 373

  Panetta in military intelligence at, 20–21, 419

  WWII training at, 10, 15

  Foster, Henry W., 146–47, 160

  Foster, Vince, 123–24

  Fourteenth Amendment, 36

  Fox, Christine, 372, 376

  Fradkov, Mikhail, 279–80, 283–84

  Franzén, John, 55–56, 60, 62, 183, 201

  Frazure, Robert, 420–21

  Freedman, Jacob, 413

  Freedom of Information Act, 215

  Frenzel, Bill, 100

  FSB, 279

  Gall, Peter, 46

  Gary (CTC), 292–93, 294, 297, 313, 314

  gas tax, 119

  Gates, Robert, 185, 199, 232, 254–55, 268, 308, 313, 315, 317–18, 326–27, 332–41, 344, 346, 347, 348, 350, 365–67, 370, 372

  Gaza, 422–24

  General Services Administration, 98

  Genovese, Joe, 12

  Gephardt, Dick, 62, 63, 91, 95

  Gergen, David, 137

  Germany, 460

  U.S. forces in, 338

  Getz, Larry, 348, 363

  Giaimo, Bob, 64

  Gillerman, Elliot, 198

  Gimigliano, Paul, 212, 226

  Gingrich, Newt, 97–100, 114–15, 132, 175, 407

  in budget impasse and government shutdown, 162–63, 165, 168–74

  Contract with America of, 150–51, 153, 157–58

  false accusations by, 152–53

  on Mexico bailout, 154–55, 165

  Rabin’s funeral and, 167, 170–71

  Ginsberg, Ruth Bader, 118

  Goldman Sachs, 103

  Goldwater, Barry, 29, 44, 45, 47

  Gore, Al, 62, 63, 91, 93–94, 104–5, 106, 109, 111, 135–36, 172, 176

  BTU tax proposed by, 108, 112, 119, 462

  budget tie broken by, 121

  in 2000 election, 98, 180

  Gore, Tipper, 136–37, 176

  Goss, Porter, 197–98, 215

  government shutdown, 168–75

  Graham, Lindsey, 344

  Gramm, Phil, 156

  Gramm-Rudman automatic spending cuts, 372

  Grannis, David, 266

  Greenberg, Leo, 52

  Greenspan, Alan, 106, 114

  Gridiron Club dinner, 413

  Griffin, Pat, 131, 145

  Grossman, Marc, 415–16

  Guantánamo Bay, 399, 416

  Guatemala, 276, 457

  gun control, 143, 150, 278

  Haas, Ewing, 22, 24

  Hagel, Chuck, 420, 456n

  Haiti, military junta in, 146–49

  Haldeman, H. R., 134

  Hale, Bob, 372

  Ham, Carter, 366, 367, 428

  Hamas, 422–26

  Hamid, Ibrahim Sa’id Ahmed Abd al-, 291, 293–96, 308, 318, 323

  Hamilton, Lee, 185

  Hand, Bailey, 348, 363

  Hanoi, 420

  Hanson, Elizabeth, 1–2, 268, 269

  Hanssen, Robert, 278–79

  Haqqani network, 241, 286, 378–79

  Hart, Phil, 28

  Hasan, Nidal Malik, 245, 386

  Hawaii, 258

  Hayden, Michael, 202–5, 207, 211, 215, 232

  Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), 34–35, 46

  Education Office of, 37

  Office for Civil Rights at, 3, 35–36, 37–45, 50, 52, 195

  Health Care Financing Administration, 74

  health care reform, 107, 121, 128–32, 142, 162, 176, 190, 191

  Health and Human Services Department, U.S., 157, 178

  health insurance, 107

  Helmand Province, 346, 410

  Henry, Delonnie, 348

  Heritage Foundation, 132

  Hezbollah, 277

  History Detectives, 421

  Hoekstra, Pete, 224, 266

  Holbrooke, Richard, 415

  Holder, Eric, 286

  Holocaust, 271, 425–26

  Homeland Security Department, U.S., 258, 389

  homelessness, 166

  Honduras, 277

  Hormuz, Strait of, 404–5, 408, 435–36

  hospice care, Medicare and, 73–74

  House of Representatives, U.S., 46, 153, 298

  Administration Committee of, 65, 98–99

  Agriculture Committee of, 64–65, 75

  Appropriations Committee of, 62, 64, 71

  Armed Services Committee of, 317, 430

  banking scandal of 1992 of, 99

  Budget Committee of, 65, 81–89, 90, 101, 107, 117, 372

  Clinton’s budget in, 118–20, 122

  Crime Bill in, 145

  D.C. Committee of, 64

  Education Committee of, 64

  Ethics Committee of, 63, 99

  government shutdown and, 168–70, 172–75

  Intelligence Committee of, 197, 224, 225, 227, 266, 298, 431

  Post Office Committee of, 84

  Select Committee on Hunger of, 74

  housing, affordable, 79

  housing legislation, federal, 27–28

  Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD), 161, 166

  H.R. 115, 167

  human intelligence (HUMINT), 210

  human rights, 251

  Humphrey, Hubert, 26, 51

  Hurricane Sandy, 437–38

  Hussein, Saddam, 90, 399

  ICBMs, 342

  Ickes, Harold, 102, 137–38, 157–60, 168

  Ignatius, David, 405–6

  immigration, 86, 191, 195

  India, Panetta in, 271n

  Indonesia, 383, 395

  inflation, 122

  Inouye, Daniel, 206

  Intelligence Community Directive 402, 229

  interest rates, 106, 109

  Interior Department, U.S., 68

  offshore oil drilling and, 71

  Internal Revenue Service, 99

  International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), 379–80, 410

  interrogation, 205

  Feinstein’s investigation into Bush-era, 232–35

  in friendly countries, 216

  interrogation, enhanced, 193–94, 201, 207, 214, 226

  at “black sites,” 228

  memos regarding, 214–20, 224

  Obama’s abolition of, 2
22–24

  Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistani, 235, 300, 378–79

  investments, federal, 100

  Invisible War, 453

  Iran, 202, 205, 276, 362, 433

  American hostages in, 95, 313

  Arab responses to, 411–12

  Israel’s response to nuclear program of, 403–8, 421, 425–26

  nuclear program of, 271–74, 348, 377

  Predator shot at by, 435–36

  Shiites in, 412

  Iranian Revolutionary Guard, 272

  Iraq, 205, 239

  Al Qaeda in, 249, 394, 399

  Camp Victory at, 354

  CIA in, 240

  Gulf War in, 79–80, 88, 90–91

  Panetta in, 354, 356–57, 398–99

  post-war American presence in, 392–94

  security system in, 185–86

  U.S. troops in, 271

  war in, 1, 199, 248, 250–52, 271, 280, 290, 338, 346, 347, 349, 352, 369–70, 383, 419

  weapons of mass destruction falsely reported in, 193

  withdrawal from, 381, 382, 400, 403, 413, 415

  Iraq Study Group, 185–86, 193

  ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), 394

  Islamabad, 241, 305

  2008 bombing of Marriott Hotel in, 243

  Israel, 205, 271–73, 287, 302, 449

  Egyptian attack on Cairo embassy of, 361–64

  Hamas and, 422–26

  on Iran’s nuclear program, 403–8, 421, 425

  Iron Dome antirocket system of, 422–26

  Italians, West Coast relocation of, 13–14

  Jackson, Jesse, 126

  Japan, 309, 338, 395, 421, 443, 444

  Japanese Americans, 14, 55

  Javits, Jacob, 27, 28, 45

  JDAMS (Joint Direct Attack Munitions), 311

  John Birch Society, 30, 33, 69

  John Paul II, Pope, 133

  Johnson, Jeh, 339, 348, 366, 367

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 26–28, 36, 45, 48, 95, 139, 149–50

  Johnson administration, 37–38

  Johnson-Ham report, 366, 367–68

  Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, 453

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 147, 263–64, 306–7, 332, 339, 346, 350–51, 359, 365, 366, 372, 378, 393, 401, 427

  Joint Special Operations Command, 249, 299

  Joint Strike Fighter, 346

  Jones, Jim, 229–31, 268

  Jones, Terry, 427

  Jordan, 260–63, 362, 449

  Jordan, Vernon, 185

  Justice Department, U.S., 36, 219, 267, 283, 286, 386

  Kabul, 286, 336, 354, 398, 409, 410

  Kale, Dora, 211

  Kappes, Stephen, 198, 202–3, 208, 211, 212, 215, 219, 225, 227, 229, 240, 262, 266, 271, 291, 294

  Karzai, Hamid, 254, 286, 290, 327, 353, 355–56, 397, 409–11, 414–15, 417–18

  Kayani, Ashfaq, 236, 248, 327

  Kelley, Jill, 439–40

  Kelly, John, 337, 343, 348, 353, 357, 363, 409–10, 423, 424n, 428–29, 446

  Kelly, Robert Michael, 337

  Kendall, Frank, 372

  Kennedy, Anthony, 401

  Kennedy, Edward M., 99–100

  Kennedy, John F., 19–20, 21, 36, 46, 102, 279

  Kennedy, Robert F., 28, 31

  Kennedy Center, 361, 363

  Kennedy Center Honors, 101–2

  Kerrey, Bob, 119–20

  Kerry, John, 450

  KGB, 278, 284

  Khan, Samir, 386

  Khost, attack on, 1–2, 262–63, 268, 292, 302, 306, 331, 358, 455, 459

  Kim Jong Il, 275–76

  Kim Kwan-jin, 395

  King, Liz, 337

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., assassination of, 28–29, 31

  King, Rodney, 95

  Klein, Joe, 99

  Koran, burnings of, 409, 415, 427

  Korea:

  Demilitarized Zone in, 273, 274–75

  see also North Korea; South Korea

  Korean War, 275

  Kristol, Bill, 151

  Kuchel, Tom, 24–32, 33, 40, 44–45, 47, 48, 51, 55, 71–72, 462

  Panetta as Senate aide to, 3, 22–23, 39, 52, 461

  Kuwait, 90, 293

  Kuwaiti, Abu Ahmed al-, see Hamid, Ibrahim Sa’id Ahmed Abd al-

  Kyl, Jon, 344

  Kyrgyzstan, 408

  LaBonte, Darren, 269

  labor, organized, 126

  Lahore, 304

  Lake, Tony, 147, 159

  Langley, 205, 216, 217, 219, 222, 236, 266, 279, 298, 307, 321, 325

  Latin America, 154, 276–78

  leadership, government and, 461–67

  Lee Myung-bak, 274

  legislative savings, 82

  Leiter, Mike, 247, 249–50

  Leland, Mickey, 75–76

  Lettre, Marcel, 337, 348, 433

  Levey, Stuart, 250

  Levin, Carl, 351

  Lew, Jack, 287, 371–72

  Lewinsky, Monica, 174, 181

  Liang Guanglie, 444–45

  Libya, 202, 301, 310, 354, 383, 399, 428–32

  NATO assault on, 380–82, 448

  Lincoln, Abraham, 465

  Lindsay, John, 45–49

  Lippert, Mark, 200

  Lisbon, 456

  Little, George, 212, 315, 329, 349, 354, 410, 411, 420–21, 440

  Little Rock, Ark., 36, 81, 95–96, 101, 102, 103, 105, 459

  London, 456, 457

  Long, Tish, 321

  Los Angeles, Calif., 30–31, 166, 361, 391

  Los Angeles Police Department, 95

  Los Angeles Times, 57, 113, 158

  Lott, Trent, 157

  Luscri, Dominic, 9–10

  Lynn, Bill, 348

  Mabahith, 243

  Mabus, Ray, 346

  McCain, John, 191, 290, 344–45, 437

  McChrystal, Stanley, 252–54

  McCloskey, Frank, 98–99

  McCloskey, Pete, 55, 68

  McConnell, Mitch, 345, 375

  MacDill Air Force Base, 248

  McDonough, Denis, 200, 231, 233, 307, 326–27, 348, 369, 380

  McGovern, George, 56

  McHugh, John, 346

  McIntyre, Rick, 98

  McKeon, Buck, 430

  McLarty, Mack, 125, 131, 133, 137

  McRaven, Bill, 249, 257, 299–300, 306, 308, 312–13, 400

  bin Laden mission led by, 316, 318–19, 322–25, 330, 335, 402

  as commander of Special Operations, 357

  McVeigh, Timothy, 160–61

  Madrid, 456

  Maersk Alabama, 401–2

  Magaziner, Ira, 130

  Maliki, Nuri, 354, 356, 392–94

  Maotai, 446

  Margolies-Mezvinsky, Marjorie, 120

  Marine Corps, U.S., 337, 346, 367–68, 399

  Marine Fleet Anti-Terrorism Support Teams (FAST), 428

  Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, 72

  Marino, Diana, 60

  Markey, Ed, 63

  Marshall, George, 347–48, 366, 456

  Marshall Plan, 34

  Martin, Ruby, 37, 38–39

  Masri, Sheikh Said al-, 265

  Matthews, Jennifer Lynne, 269

  Mattis, James, 434–35

  Maya (CIA officer), 315

  Medicaid, 82, 176

  Medicare, 26, 73–74, 82, 107, 116, 162, 164, 166–70, 172

  Medina, Monica, 455

  Medvedev, Dmitry, 282–83

  Meese, Ed, 185

  Meet the Press, 152

/>   Mehsud, Baitullah, 265

  Mehsud, Hakimullah, 265

  Mello, Henry, 80

  Mendocino, Calif., 70

  Merced, University of California at, 80

  Mexico, 126, 217, 219

  bailout of, 153–55, 165

  Panetta in, 277, 278

  Michel, Bob, 100

  middle class:

  burdens shifted to, 167

  Clinton’s appeal to, 91

  tax cut for, 93, 108, 112, 116, 164, 462, 463

  Middle East, 292, 301, 303, 304, 310, 362–63, 370, 381, 383, 394, 408, 411–12, 426, 427, 434–36

  Panetta in, 270–71

  Mikulski, Barbara, 375

  military, U.S.:

  “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in, 339, 364–69, 456

  limits on women’s service in, 454–55

  racial integration in, 366–67, 456

  reconceiving and restructuring of, 377–78, 382–85, 400, 463

  sexual assaults on women in, 451–56

  Miller, George, 65–66

  Miller, Jim, 338, 424, 435

  Minarik, Joe, 117

  Mineta, Norm, 55, 183

  Minge, David, 120

  Minneapolis, Minn., 193

  missile defense, 344

  Mitchell, George, 95

  Mogadishu, 245

  Mohammadi, Bismillah Khan, 409

  Monterey, Calif., 9–15, 23, 33, 49, 50, 58–59, 68, 77, 78, 302, 331, 335, 357, 373, 457

  military bases at, 77–78

  Naval Postgraduate School in, 64

  Monterey Bay, Cal State, 80–81, 182, 190

  Panetta Institute for Public Policy at, 81, 182, 196, 466

  Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, 72, 94

  Monterey Peninsula Herald, 40, 69

  Moore, Fran, 211

  Morell, Michael, 203, 211, 240, 294, 297, 299, 303, 321, 326, 329, 334

  Morris, Dick, 149–50, 157–60, 163–65, 168, 175–76, 179

  Moscow, 280, 284

  Mossad, 271

  Mossadegh, Mohammad, 276

  Mubarak, Hosni, 301, 302–4, 362–63

  Mueller, Bob, 223, 247

  Mullen, Deborah, 351

  Mullen, Michael, 263, 307, 314, 317, 327, 339–40, 350–51, 368, 378–79, 430

  Munitz, Barry, 80–81, 182

  Murtha, Jack, 71

  Myers, Dee Dee, 116

  NAACP, 50

  Nabhan, Saleh, 246

  Nairobi, 246

  Napolitano, Janet, 258

  Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, 272

  National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, 351

  National Capital Region, 343

  National Clandestine Service (NCS), 202, 203, 212, 217, 227, 246, 280, 292, 300, 314

  National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), 247, 426–27

  national debt, 91

  National Economic Council, 102–3

  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 321

  National Guard, 345, 383, 438

  National Military Command Center, 341

 

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