The apex political fixer Thomas Tommy the Cork Corcoran later observed that LBJs whole world was built on that dam. Like Lady Bird, Nancy served as a mood regulator: She knew how well Reagan could perform when confident and relaxed, and her presence improved his performance. Only six months into the occupation of Iraq, Halliburtons fleets of trucks began to breakdown due to lack of spare parts and shoddy upkeep. His term expired in 1948, and Harry Truman had just announced his intention to reappoint him to the position, enraging the oil and gas industry. The Defense Contract Audit Agency report comes on top of previous investigations tagging Halliburton, and its Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary, for more than $442 million in unsupported billings for its work in Iraq, including charges for meals that were never served, $45 cases of pop, unnecessary heavy equipment, tailoring fees and $152,000 for movie screenings. Similarly, Halliburton kept the Pentagon investigators in the dark about the prices it paid for purchasing fuel from Turkey and Jordan. What had suddenly looked like a sure thing, now found Brown & Root on the unnerving verge of bankruptcy. Kitt's defence of America's young soldiers elicits tears from the First Lady and results in the CIA opening a dossier on her. With the outbreak of the prolonged Iran/Iraq, those oil terminals, Iraqs main source of getting its crude to global markets, were hit time and time again by Iranian saboteurs. The Clinton years were very good to Halliburton right to the final days. But Cheney was no mere figurehead. DETAILS BELOW. Then, in the mid-1940s, opportunity came calling when KTBC, Austins first radio station, went on the market. Of course, Cheney didnt wrest these deals from the feds alone. The resulting media backlash, fueled by the White House PR machine, is swift and brutal, effectively derailing Kitts career for decades to come. The purpose of this conclave was to devise a project that would come to be known as RIO or Restore Iraq Oil. It is estimated that In a way, this meeting in the bowels of the Pentagon was all for show, a kind of mating ritual between the government and its favorite contractor.