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Article: Baker Back in the Saddle at the State Department:Tutwiler Rejects Criticism That Secretary's Wyoming Vacation Diminished Role in Crisis
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- August 29, 1990
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Secretary of State James A. Baker III was back in his seventh
floor, State Department suite yesterday, having cut short a Wyoming
vacation that caused speculation about whether he was, as the
Financial Times of London remarked, the "Mr. Invisible" of the
Persian Gulf crisis.
Baker went to a Wyoming ranch Aug. 16 after attending President
Bush's meeting with Jordan's King Hussein in Kennebunkport, Maine.
And, just as questions have been asked about the propriety of the
president remaining in the ocean breezes of his summer home while
thousands of Americans are bogged down in the sands of the Arabian
peninsula, Baker's absence has prompted gossip about whether he has
been too far from the ...