During the administration of President Bush's father, they noted, the United States tried an informal approach to arms control with mixed results.

From some peculiar circumstances attending the administration of his father, the young Baron, at the decease of the former, entered immediately upon his vast possessions.

The country is believed to have produced one or two weapons in the early 1990's during the administration of Mr. Bush's father.

All three served in the administration of Mr. Bush's father.

He also assembled a large think tank under the leadership of Josh Bolten, who had worked in the administration of Mr. Bush's father.

"America led a mission to make the world safer," said Mr. Cheney, who was secretary of defense in the administration of President Bush's father.

Juan Pujaló claimed he was barred from the property because of the bad administration of Enriqueta's father.

"This is not a terribly hawkish world," said James Pinkerton, a conservative writer who worked in the administration of Mr. Bush's father.

Instead, he criticized the administration of Mr. Bush's father, which he said "squandered" money on a tax cut that could have been used on a cleanup.

Those rules were put in effect in the administration of Mr. Bush's father and remained throughout the Clinton years.