NEWSWEEK ON CHENEY

There isn't much new in the article but I did find two interesting tidbits:

NEWSWEEK once asked his press secretary (there have been seven of them since he became vice president) LINK

In the late fall of 2002, as the Bush administration was readying for the invasion of Iraq, Victor Davis Hanson, an agrarian classicist whose writings about the 9/11 attacks, primarily in the National Review online, had attracted Cheney's attention, was invited to dine at the vice president's mansion. Hanson found Cheney to be intellectually curious, well read, and not at all zealous. "He had no illusions about going to war with Iraq," Hanson said. "It was to him a least bad choice." Over dinner, Hanson recalled, "we talked about Lincoln, about leaders who had gone through hell. I had a vague feeling of tragedy," Hanson said, then corrected himself: "Tragedy is the wrong word. There was a sort of resignation. I think he understands that the vilification of the moment is not the final word." LINK

There must be a story behind the 7 press secretaries and I wonder why this hasn't gotten more press.

Hanson is a well-known partisan hack and Newsweek should at least have appended "controversial" to his descriptiom.