Posted on 08/30/2011 12:19:53 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
No one should have expected that Dick Cheney's memoir would be anything but frank. Make that brutally frank. Such as this characterization of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's description to President George W. Bush of her proposed nuclear-weapons agreement with North Korea. It's on page 487:
"Looking for a way to explain this situation, Rice said, 'Mr. President, this is just the way diplomacy works sometimes. You don't always get a written agreement.' The statement was utterly misleading, totally divorced from what the secretary was doing, which was urging the president, in the absence of an agreement, to pretend to have one. . . . "
When the Bush presidency ended, Dick Cheney thought he was done with public life. In May 2009 he was back, delivering a speech at the American Enterprise Institute and defending the Bush anti-terror policies. Worth noting was that the White House, as counterweight, scheduled a speech by President Obama on the subject the same day.
It was a familiar place for the former vice president—in the eye of a public controversy's raging storm. Seated peacefully now in a soft, tan leather chair in his home on the outskirts of his former congressional district in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and with his memoir about to be published, Mr. Cheney reflects on the dueling speeches between a sitting president and "the old has-been vice president."
"When I left the government in January of '09," he says, "I did not anticipate that I was going to be some kind of a public spokesman on behalf of those policies. I thought I had 40 good years in the business. But I found there wasn't anybody else out there, and when they started talking about shutting down these programs, prosecuting the people who carried out these policies, frankly ..
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Jackson Hole has its own Congressional District? Wouldn't Driggs, ID be a better fit for that description?
This should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking a position of executive leadership -— sounds as good as the book that Jack Welch wrote about GE.
Honesty is an awesome gift, even when it hurts!
Above all else, this is the most frustrating part of the post Bush administration.
All the rest of the country is merely fly-over wasteland, except at campaign time.
Bush burned up any support from Conservatives with NCLB, Amnesty, FU’d Iraq, steel tariffs, Islam is Peace, and much more of the famous Compassionate Bushism crap and thus left himself with minimal allies in his 2nd term. Sometimes I think we might have been better off if Gore won in 2000!
Stay out of da Bushies.
I love that photo.
A true Republican!lol
So they love throwing Cheney under the bus!
Obummer will be DOA in history!
And Biden will forgotten all together!
Wyoming only has one Congressman, so the whole state was his district.
The couture would have a 6 to 3 liberal majority, and would be rubber stamping Obamacare and anything else that Obama or the libs wanted.
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