11.   For secretary of defense, the president chose William Cohen, a Maine Republican who is retiring from the Senate.

12.   If the president chose not to participate, he would be saying he would rather take big money.

13.   If not, they lose it and may face U.S. economic penalties unless the president chooses to issue a waiver.

14.   In the end, after talking with his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the president chose the more narrow approach.

15.   It would allow the president to choose how many security workers are federal employees.

16.   It might have happened if club president Tom Schieffer had chosen Walt Jocketty to be general manager instead of Doug Melvin.

17.   Lawyers and political advisers to the president have been weighing the political and legal risks if the president should choose to rebuff the subpoena on constitutional grounds.

18.   Liberal Democrats in Congress complained that in doing so, the president chose to help successful students rather than those struggling through the early grades.

19.   Once the president has chosen his successor, party loyalists usually fall lock step behind the heir apparent.

20.   One key variable in how things proceed in the Senate is what route the president ultimately chooses.