Dick Cheney Tries to write a new Historic hagada...

In New Memoir, Dick Cheney Tries to Rewrite History
By Barton Gellman
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"The Bush-Cheney relationship never fully recovered from that day. Bush wrote, without naming Cheney, that he “made clear to my advisers that I never wanted to be blindsided like that again.” March 11, 2004 was the day the president of the United States discovered that the vice president’s zeal could lead him off a cliff. Cheney confirms throughout his memoir that he holds only contempt for office-holders who place politics over principle. The nation’s second-highest elected official was, paradoxically, an anti-politician. A president cannot afford to be. Here and throughout, Cheney’s memoir is a telling account – occasionally explicit, more often implied — of their mutual disillusionment." [...]

Barton Gellman, a Time contributing editor-at-large, is author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (Penguin Press, 2008).

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