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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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Cheney Likes Something Obama's Doing: Drone Strikes

Former Vice President Dick Cheney in October 2011.

February 12, 2013 The former vice president thinks the current president's national security team is "second rate." Cheney tells CBS that the president's policies are making the nation "vulnerable." But he thinks using drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists is "a good program."

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Monday, July 23, 2012

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Road Map For Mitt Romney: Positive, And Negative, V.P. Picks Dating Back To 1964

Who will be Romney's VP?  The naming of his running mate is likely going to come in mid-August, after his foreign trip and the conclusion of the Olympics.

July 23, 2012 We may be three weeks away from learning Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate. Until then, here is a historical look at all the VP picks in the last half century, and which ones were considered a plus — or a minus.

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Friday, July 13, 2012

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Cheney: If There's Another Sept. 11, I Want Romney In The Oval Office

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, on November 2010 in Dallas.

July 13, 2012 "Sooner or later there is going to be a big surprise. Usually a very unpleasant one," the former vice president said. When that happens, he's hoping Romney will be president.

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Friday, April 13, 2012

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Cheney Expected At Wyoming GOP Convention Saturday

 Former Vice President and Lynne Cheney at home after his release from Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia, where he received the heart transplant.

April 13, 2012 Just three weeks ago, the former vice president had a heart transplant. This would be his first public appearance since then.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

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Cheney Released From Hospital

 Former Vice President and Mrs. Cheney at home after his release from Inova Fairfax Hospital on Tuesday.

April 3, 2012 The former vice president received a heart transplant on March 24. He has had severe heart problems, and had suffered five heart attacks, since the age of 37. He's now 71.

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Monday, March 26, 2012

It's All Politics

Monday Political Grab Bag: Supreme Court Takes Health Care Law's Pulse...

March 26, 2012 Supreme Court arguments began on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act... Obama told his Russian counterpart that he would have "more flexibility" on missile defense after his re-election... Santorum's decisive win Saturday in Louisiana's GOP primary did little to reset the race.

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Cheney Operation Underscores Heart Transplant Issues

 Dick Cheney is interviewed in New York in August 2011. The former vice president is recovering after having heart transplant surgery on Saturday.

March 26, 2012 The former vice president is recovering from a heart transplant he received over the weekend. Experts say it's unusual for a 71-year-old to get a transplant, but more and more older people are getting them as the procedures improve and the population ages.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

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Cheney Recovering After Heart Transplant

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from a heart transplant he received at a Virginia hospital.

March 25, 2012 The former vice president had been on a waiting list for a new heart for more than 20 months. Cheney, 71, was recovering in intensive care at Inova Fairfax Hospital, located just outside Washington.

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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

It's All Politics

Clinton For Veep: Follow The Sources

November 8, 2011 Will the secretary of state replace Joe Biden in 2012? Reporter Bob Woodward floated that scenario a year ago. What does he actually know, and how does he knows it.

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Monday, September 12, 2011

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Woodward: It's Clear From His New Book, Cheney Didn't Learn From Iraq

Former Vice President Dick Cheney. (Feb. 10, 2011, file photo.)

September 12, 2011 Bob Woodward argues Dick Cheney's willingness to bomb Syria on flimsy intelligence showed he didn't learn much from Sept. 11.

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Friday, September 02, 2011

It's All Politics

Cheney Questions Why Palin Quit As Governor

Sarah Palin in Fairbanks on July 26, 2009, the day she delivered her farewell speech as Alaska governor.

September 2, 2011 "I've never gotten around the question of her having left the governorship of Alaska in mid-term," former Vice President Dick Cheney said today when asked about fellow Republican Sarah Palin and her suitability for national office.

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Thursday, September 01, 2011

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Condoleezza Rice Resents Cheney's 'Attack On My Integrity'

When they were on the same team: Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2008.

September 1, 2011 She also disputes his account of her crying during one meeting. "I don't remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him," Rice tells Reuters.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Cheney: Iraq War Did Not Hurt Reputation Of U.S.; Was Sound Policy

August 30, 2011 "In fact I think it was sound policy that dealt with a very serious problem," the former vice president says of the decision to go to war.

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Monday, August 29, 2011

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Powell: Cheney's Taking 'Cheap Shots'

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell during his appearance Sunday on CBS News' Face the Nation.

August 29, 2011 The former secretary of state is no fan of what's in the former vice president's new memoir, which has critical things to say about others who served under President George W. Bush.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

It's All Politics

Cheney, Rumsfeld Cheered Amid Boos At CPAC

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at CPAC, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011.

February 10, 2011 NPR's Don Gonyea heard the terms "murderous scum" and "Cheney for president." Rumsfeld was on the public schedule; Cheney wasn't. Whenever heckling started, part of the crowd tried to shout them down with "USA! USA! USA!"

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