The Washington Post, August 17th, 2000
Dick Cheney's vice presidential acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention succeeded in stirring up the partisan juices of the delegates, but it saddened me in a way. He cited all of the presidents with whom he had served--except one. "I was there on Aug. 9, 1974, when Gerald Ford assumed the presidency during our gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War," he said. Cheney was there because he had gotten his start on the staff of Richard Nixon. I suppose one of his advisers, or perhaps Cheney himself, didn't want to contaminate the hall by mentioning that name. Yet, it's o...
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