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<b>Howard Leach</b> served as President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>'s U.S. Ambassador to France until he vacated his post in April 2005 and was replaced with a relative, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Roberts_Stapleton" title="Craig Roberts Stapleton">Craig Roberts Stapleton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OS_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-OS-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>
Leach is one of several prominent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative" title="Conservative">conservatives</a> funding <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom%27s_Watch" title="Freedom's Watch">Freedom's Watch</a>, a new White House <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect">front group</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup> which began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress" title="Congress" class="mw-redirect">Congress</a> who may be wavering in their support for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq">war in Iraq</a> not to 'cut and run'."<sup id="cite_ref-name_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-name-2" title="">[3]</a></sup></p>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Profiles"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Resources_and_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Resources and articles</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#References"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#External_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p>"President Bush stuck with tradition in his nomination for ambassador to France, naming a very wealthy -- and extremely generous -- contributor to serve in Paris, considered one of the most prestigious foreign posts," the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Responsive_Politics" title="Center for Responsive Politics">Center for Responsive Politics</a> reports.<sup id="cite_ref-OS_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-OS-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>
"Howard Leach, a successful investor involved in numerous business interests, has a net worth reported to be in the billions. He is the CEO of Leach Capital Corp. and president of Foley Timber and Land Co., which is based in Florida.
"He is also a big-time <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> donor. Leach contributed $225,559 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> candidates and party committees in the 1999-2000 election cycle, including $190,300 in soft money. His wife, Gretchen, gave $63,800 to Republican candidates and party committees -- $32,800 of which in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Soft_money" title="Soft money">soft money</a>.
"Leach was one of the Bush campaign's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush%27s_Rangers" title="Bush's Rangers">'Pioneers'</a>, who raised at least $100,000 for the campaign. He contributed $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Committee and $5,000 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund, a contribution matched by his wife.
"All told, Howard and Gretchen Leach gave $289,359 to GOP candidates and party committees in 1999-2000, $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund, and $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney inaugural committee."
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<li id="cite_note-OS-0">↑ <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-OS_0-0" title="">1.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-OS_0-1" title="">1.1</a></sup> <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/ambassadors/leach.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/ambassadors/leach.asp" rel="nofollow">Presidential Profile: Howard Leach, U.S. Ambassador to France,</a> Center for Responsive Politics, accessed August 22, 2007.</li>
<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/08/adelson-runs-at.html" class="external text" title="http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/08/adelson-runs-at.html" rel="nofollow">"Adelson runs attack ads against Porter,"</a> <i>Las Vegas Gleaner</i>, August 22, 2007.</li>
<li id="cite_note-name-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-name_2-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22war-web.html?r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22war-web.html?r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">"Group to Urge War Support,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, August 22, 2007.</li>
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<li>Mike Allen, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5479.html" class="external text" title="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5479.html" rel="nofollow">"Pro-Bush group spends $15M defending war,"</a> <i>The Politico</i> (<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884793/posts" class="external text" title="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884793/posts" rel="nofollow">posted</a> by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Republic" title="Free Republic">Free Republic</a>), August 22, 2007.</li>
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<p class="inside-head">A diplomat gets by without savoir-faire
WASHINGTON — Like every would-be diplomat, Howard Leach, a 70-year-old California billionaire, readied himself for his Senate confirmation hearing by enduring a "murder board" in which he was peppered with pesky questions by his State Department prep team.
But the nattily dressed, white-haired<b> agribusiness </b>tycoon did not need to worry. During Thursday morning's hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no one brought up the embarrassing gap in Leach's credentials to serve as the next ambassador to France. Apparently, it would have been impolite to mention that Leach is only now learning to speak French.
Yes, George W. Bush has chosen as his envoy to Paris a generous Republican donor who believes that English is the true language of love and diplomacy. Plum diplomatic postings are awarded in every administration to wealthy business leaders whose ties to the president are mostly financial. But, generally, these political appointees meet minimal standards. And when it comes to the vexing matter of dealing with the French, fluency in the language should not be too much to expect.
But Leach is unperturbed about his lack of preparation for his posting to Paris. In a brief interview after the hearing, Leach took pains to point out that he has been taking language lessons and that his wife, Gretchen, is fluent in French. "The ambassadors to most countries do not speak the language of those countries," he said. "I don't believe anyone should have diplomatic discussions and negotiations in a foreign language that they aren't familiar with, since it is easy to make mistakes or to be misunderstood."
But France is a far cry from Kyrgyzstan. The ambassador to France shouldn't need the help of staff to read the morning newspapers or require a translator to explain the nuances of American foreign policy in a television interview. In trying to justify his ambitions, Leach uttered a sentence guaranteed to make Parisians cringe: "I believe that as a tribute to French culture and their traditions that I should learn the French language." The custodians of French culture will be so flattered.
<b>Leach, who has served for 11 years on the board of regents of the University of California</b>, may in time prove to be an adequate ambassador. It shouldn't be held against Leach that he donated $226,000 to Republican candidates and committees in the 2000 campaign cycle, plus a thoughtful $100,000 gift to the Bush-Cheney inaugural committee. Nor is there anything wrong with wanting the title of "ambassador" as the capstone to a long career. But it can be argued that Leach's patriotic yen to serve might have been satisfied by dispatching him to a less linguistically sensitive embassy, such as that in New Zealand.
Now that the Democrats have taken over the Senate, they might have been expected to pose a few tough questions before rubber-stamping Bush's ambassadorial appointees. But such scrutiny wasn't part of the agenda of Thursday's hearing, which reviewed the qualifications of Leach and the nominees for the embassies in London, Moscow and Valletta, the capital of Malta. Instead, Joseph Biden, the new chairman of Foreign Relations Committee, kept apologizing that pro-forma confirmations would be delayed by an unrelated dispute over organizing the Senate.
There was no need to quibble over the qualifications of respected career diplomat Alexander "Sandy" Vershbow, who will be the next ambassador to Russia. William Farish, a wealthy patrician Kentucky race-horse breeder whose ties with the Bush family date to the early 1960s and who boasts a friendship with Queen Elizabeth, has the standard establishment pedigree to serve as our representative at the Court of St. James's. Even Anthony Gioia, the Upstate New York macaroni czar who served as president of the National Pasta Association, probably fits the bill as ambassador to Malta, a Mediterranean island nation that he courageously admitted he has never visited.
Vershbow aside, the other ambassadorial appointees won presidential gratitude for their political generosity. According to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, Farish contributed $27,000 to GOP candidates and committees in the last campaign and threw in another $100,000 for the Bush inaugural. Gioia is a veteran Republican fundraiser who hosted a reception for Bush at his Buffalo home that raised $500,000. But Gioia can be bipartisan in his favors. Introducing the soon-to-be ambassador to Malta to the committee, New York Democratic Rep. John LaFalce teasingly complained, "I'm losing my finance chairman."
During the two-hour hearing, not a single substantive question was directed at Leach. Biden did pointedly urge the nominee to consult with the outgoing ambassador to France, Felix Rohatyn, who learned French as a Nazi-era refugee in that nation, about overstaffing in the Paris embassy. In response, Leach volunteered his commitment to "right-sizing" embassy personnel. As the session drew to a close, Biden played his guess-who's-coming-to-dinner card. With a broad smile the committee chairman announced, "The bad news, Mr. Farish and Mr. Leach, is that I have to be in Paris and London quite often, and you may see me again."
It turns out that Leach is not the only one in the ambassadorial set who will be calling France home. Because of Britain's rigorous animal-importation laws, Farish's pet dog, a white Maltese named Cotton, is enduring a six-month quarantine in France before being allowed to cross the English Channel. Talking about the Cotton's ordeal after the hearing, Sarah Farish, the wife of the ambassador-designate, joked, "She's learning French." These days, it seems like everybody is, even our next ambassador to France.</p><p>But Crane isn’t the only billionaire behind Measure B’s curtain. As Haaland points out in a recent SEIU flyer that says, “Beware the Billionaires, Stop the Attacks on Public Workers,” one of Prop. B’s biggest donors was Howard Leach, a billionaire financier and investor who served as George W. Bush’s ambassador to France.</p><p>“”Leach was a Republican ‘pioneer,’ raising more than $100,000 for Bush’s campaign,” the SEIU flyer notes. “He also contributes to the Republican Governors’ Association, whose main objective was the election of the new crop of conservative governors pushing anti-worker measures in Florida, Ohio, New Jersey, Wisconsin and other states.”</p><p> </p><p>http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/03/01/beware-billionaires-behind-pension-reform</p>
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<b style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Howard Leach</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">served as President</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">George W. Bush</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">'s U.S. Ambassador to France until he vacated his post in April 2005 and was replaced with a relative,</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Craig_Roberts_Stapleton" title="Craig Roberts Stapleton" style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Craig Roberts Stapleton</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-OS_0-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-OS-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Leach is one of several prominent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">conservatives</a> funding <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom%27s_Watch" title="Freedom's Watch" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Freedom's Watch</a>, a new White House <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">front group</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup> which began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress" title="Congress" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Congress</a> who may be wavering in their support for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">war in Iraq</a> not to 'cut and run'."<sup id="cite_ref-name_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-name-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup></p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px;"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="font-size: 11.199999809265137px;"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Profiles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Resources and articles</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles">Profiles</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"President Bush stuck with tradition in his nomination for ambassador to France, naming a very wealthy -- and extremely generous -- contributor to serve in Paris, considered one of the most prestigious foreign posts," the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Responsive_Politics" title="Center for Responsive Politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Center for Responsive Politics</a> reports.<sup id="cite_ref-OS_0-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_note-OS-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"Howard Leach, a successful investor involved in numerous business interests, has a net worth reported to be in the billions. He is the CEO of Leach Capital Corp. and president of Foley Timber and Land Co., which is based in Florida.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"He is also a big-time <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a> donor. Leach contributed $225,559 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">GOP</a> candidates and party committees in the 1999-2000 election cycle, including $190,300 in soft money. His wife, Gretchen, gave $63,800 to Republican candidates and party committees -- $32,800 of which in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Soft_money" title="Soft money" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">soft money</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"Leach was one of the Bush campaign's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush%27s_Rangers" title="Bush's Rangers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">'Pioneers'</a>, who raised at least $100,000 for the campaign. He contributed $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Committee and $5,000 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund, a contribution matched by his wife.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"All told, Howard and Gretchen Leach gave $289,359 to GOP candidates and party committees in 1999-2000, $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund, and $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney inaugural committee."</p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_and_articles">Resources and articles</span></h2><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles">Related SourceWatch articles</span></h3><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-OS-0" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-OS_0-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.0</a></sup> <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-OS_0-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1.1</a></sup> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/ambassadors/leach.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Presidential Profile: Howard Leach, U.S. Ambassador to France,</a> Center for Responsive Politics, accessed August 22, 2007.</span></li><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/08/adelson-runs-at.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Adelson runs attack ads against Porter,"</a> <i>Las Vegas Gleaner</i>, August 22, 2007.</span></li><li id="cite_note-name-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Leach#cite_ref-name_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22war-web.html?r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Group to Urge War Support,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, August 22, 2007.</span></li></ol><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mike Allen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5479.html" style="text-decoration: none; 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