Cheney tells us during his RNC acceptance speech, "People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, his charm, and his great hair. I said, "How do you think I got the job?"
Great line, but few of us knew the truth behind it.
Richard Cheney's true role in national politics? He's
William H. Macy in The Cooler!
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Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then -- with Cheney's help -- lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.
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Clearly written with an agenda, but interesting factoids nonetheless. Sure, the 5 deferments I'd heard about, but who knew that Cheney flunked out of Yale (another one?) or that James Baker and Brent Scowcroft thought Cheney was crazy?
