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Politico's guide to the Cheney memoir
Topic Started: Aug 28 2011, 11:49 AM (256 Views)
jon-nyc
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Interesting. I look forward to reading the book.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62194.html
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This from a different piece on the book. Hilarious.

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On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected … [Bush chief of staff] Josh Bolten decided to host a unique session for the incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, during our last weeks in office. Josh gathered all the living former chiefs of staff, about a dozen of us. Don Rumsfeld was there, Howard Baker, Jack Watson, John Sununu, and Leon Panetta, among others, and we met around the table in the office we had all once inhabited. Josh went around and asked each of us to give Rahm our most important piece of advice. By this time, of course, there’d been years of stories about how I was the evil genius controlling the Bush administration from behind a curtain, so when it came my turn I advised Rahm, ‘Whatever you do, make sure you’ve got the vice president under control.’ It was one of my better lines.
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Among pols of the last 20 years, Cheney is the one I'd best like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with.

Bill Clinton is probably #2.
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I agree he's had an interesting career - so did his pal Rumsfeld. Did you read his memoir that came out earlier this year?

Cheney's book is out Tuesday, I pre-ordered it on Kindle already.
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Jolly
Aug 28 2011, 12:18 PM
Among pols of the last 20 years, Cheney is the one I'd best like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with.

Bill Clinton is probably #2.
I pick Condi Rice.
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Aug 28 2011, 12:42 PM
Jolly
Aug 28 2011, 12:18 PM
Among pols of the last 20 years, Cheney is the one I'd best like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with.

Bill Clinton is probably #2.
I pick Condi Rice.
No, she's in the "candlelit dinner and wine" list.
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I happened to turn the radio on Saturday morning when Peter Sagel was about to have Bill Clinton play on a quiz show they host - but since he had the former President on the line, he felt compelled to ask him the two questions he'd always wanted to ask... "Ok, did Oswald act alone and what's going on at Roswell?" Clinton said as far as he could tell, Oswald acted alone and then noted that he helped celebrate the anniversary at Roswell. Sagal asked, "so how was it having lunch the aliens?" Made me chuckle.
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Aug 28 2011, 12:42 PM
I pick Condi Rice.
Her book is due out in November.


lol, kluurs.
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Condi's not happy.


By the way, I'm 75pp or so into the book now. I'm finding the parts about the Nixon and Ford administrations to be very interesting. Rummy's was too.
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I was in Roswell a few weeks ago working on a wireless project. We had a guy from India with us who had to get out and take a picture of the alien museum.
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Sep 1 2011, 06:29 AM
Condi's not happy.


By the way, I'm 75pp or so into the book now. I'm finding the parts about the Nixon and Ford administrations to be very interesting. Rummy's was too.
Wow, the press coverage focused on the "tearfully" apologetic moment presumably because its so easy to quote. But he spends almost an entire chapter taking her down on North Korea.
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