"It has been a challenge to us that the Iraq museum is closely identified with both the prior regime and its Baathist Party," he said.

"What happened under the prior regime was that they would have those meetings, but they had to hold them in the national security adviser's office," reporters were told today.

He began as mayor of the city of Glen Cove, inheriting the prior Republican regime's deficit and bad credit rating.

Critics argue that his campaign is an uphill battle and risks splitting the vote, which could benefit candidates connected with the prior regime.

Warts and all, the 75-year-old leader has brought a stability that was sorely lacking with prior Azerbaijani regimes.

In December 2008, he declared Ecuador's national debt illegitimate, based on the argument that it had been contracted by despotic prior regimes.

Elsewhere, the passing of judgment on military men of a prior regime has been done differently or not at all.

Still, Parcells would not fault the prior regime for the salary-cap woes he inherited.

Speaking of the prior regime, Rob Kurtz, one of the managing and leasing agents, said, "To call this building managed would be a tremendous exaggeration."

The prior regimes, headed in succession by two authoritarian presidents, administered the country's economic development during the bipolar and post-Cold War world.