"Accounts vary over whether Cheney, in the White House bunker on Sept. Of course, the major figures all published books, including Bush, Cheney, Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and Laura Bush, as well as numerous Cabinet secretaries and an array of generals. It may be that the Bush-Cheney administration produced more memoirs than any in history. In coming years, the Bush archives will divulge the papers and emails that may help us set the record straight, but until then, in the course of six years of research, I relied on nearly 400 interviews with about 275 key players, along with notes and other documents they gave me and a bibliography of some 200 books, including a host of I-was-there memoirs. 11, 2001? Did Bush authorize Cheney in advance to order the military to shoot down any further hijacked planes after the first ones hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Did Attorney General John Ashcroft agree to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program before changing his mind? When did Bush first broach the idea of an invasion of Iraq? In writing Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, a history of the last administration told through the prism of the relationship between its two major protagonists, I found that one of the most daunting tasks was trying to reconcile varying versions of what happened when.ĭid CIA Director George Tenet give Condoleezza Rice, then Bush's national security adviser, a stark warning about a coming terrorist attack two months before Sept. In both big details and small, the major players often remember events quite differently, sometimes out of obvious self-serving motives but quite often just due to the natural reality of flawed human memories. The conflicting accounts underscore the challenge in reconstructing the story of any presidency. But Simpson, increasingly estranged from the family, says Liz is doing whatever it takes to win an election. Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have weighed in to affirm that Liz has indeed always stood against same-sex marriage. Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, have implied Liz never used to be against it and in fact welcomed their marriage. While supportive of her lesbian sister when Mary thought about quitting the 2004 campaign because of Bush’s support for a ban on same-sex marriage, Liz Cheney, now running for Senate in Wyoming, says she opposes legal recognition of such unions. The disparate memories of that night take on a little more meaning these days as the Cheney clan and its friends fracture over gay rights. “You’re the vice president of the United States.” “Get up, bastard!” he remembers calling out. And then there is Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming senator and longtime Cheney friend, who believes he was the waker. Nick Brady, an old friend from the first Bush administration who was in the hotel suite that night, recalls being the one to interrupt Cheney’s repose. She writes that their mother, Lynne Cheney, was the one who stirred the future vice president. Mary Cheney, Liz’s sister, remembers it differently in her book, Now It’s My Turn. Their next stop on the campaign trail will be a rally Wednesday in Wyoming, Cheney’s home state.ĪBCNEWS’ Mark Halperin and John Berman contributed to this report.In his memoir, In My Time, Cheney recalls being roused with the news of Gore’s concession by his daughter, Liz Cheney.
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With Cheney’s candidacy now official, he and Bush will begin campaigning together in effort to build enthusiasm for the full ticket in advance of the Republican National Convention, which is set to begin in Philadelphia next Monday. Hours later, the choice became official as Cheney made his first campaign appearance as a vice presidential candidate. John Kasich.Ĭheney and his wife Lynne flew to Austin this morning to join Bush and his wife Laura at the governor’s mansion. Fred Thompson and Bill Frist and Ohio Rep. Frank Keating, who received a call from the governor an hour later, Pennsylvania Gov.
That list, ABCNEWS has learned, included Oklahoma Gov. Shortly thereafter, Bush began phoning the other candidates who had been under consideration to notify them of his decision. ET, the governor called Cheney at his home in Dallas to formally ask him to join him on the ticket, and he accepted. It was revealed Monday that Bush had indeed selected Cheney to be his running mate.
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