SRL for [dickering]: While Reagan 's special envoy was , with his usual energy and sharp elbows , [dickering] with the Iraqis in the mid-1980s , Condoleezza Rice was an assistant professor of no scholarly distinction at Stanford ; Cheney a third - term congressman from Wyoming squirming up the House leadership ladder ; future viceroy of Baghdad L. Paul `` Jerry '' Bremer moving from State Department clerk and Alexander Haig protege to lavish - party giving ambassador to the Netherlands ; and George W. Bush , still by his own account given to `` heavy drinking , '' absorbed in changing the name of his chronically failed Arbusto Energy oil company to Bush Exploration .
ARG-0: Reagan 's special envoy | ARG-M-MNR: with his usual energy and sharp elbows | ARG-1: with the Iraqis | ARG-M-TMP: in the mid-1980s