WASHINGTON (CNN) --Two Cabinet members Sunday defended President Bush from harsh criticism by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in an upcoming book and accompanying television and magazine ...

one of President Bush’s closest friends, resigned Tuesday, the first members of the Cabinet to quit before the start of a second term. Ashcroft and Evans have served all four years of Bush’s ...

President Bush's cabinet included Donald Rumsfeld, who brought with him a coterie of advisors known as “neoconservatives,” and moderates such as General Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice.