at your expense.' He says, 'Look, this is good for me. When his aides would come to him and say, 'Look, we don't like that Cheney's getting so much attention. "At first President Bush thought this was OK. On how President Bush viewed the public perception of Cheney He tried to put in his memoir, but Lynne Cheney talked him out of it." And somewhere in the National Archives this photo exists, but it has never been released to the public. "Literally, his staff bought him a Darth Vader mask, and he puts it on and they take a photo of it. And he came to embrace this dark reputation. He had a very fatalistic outlook about the perils he saw to America that informed and shaped the policies that he recommended and pushed for President Bush.
"He definitely saw the world in grim terms. "And, in fact, the reality, when you go back and look at it, is a much more interesting and dynamic relationship that changes and evolves over time." And I think we kind of the sort of nuance of what was really going on there. "It became a great punch line for Saturday Night Live and late-night comics. But it kind of got distorted and oversimplified over time. "He was certainly the most influential vice president we'd ever seen to that point. On how the public viewed Vice President Cheney's role "Only after years later, when people are willing to sit down and be more candid and thoughtful," Baker tells NPR's Arun Rath, "are they willing to share further understanding of what was really happening behind the scenes." Nixon and Henry Kissinger." But, despite their accomplishments, "Their misjudgments and misadventures left them the most unpopular president and vice president in generations."īaker's account details key moments in the controversial administration, and relies on hundreds of interviews, including a conversation with Cheney. But he's now taken a second look at the administration and the relationship at its heart.ĭays of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House recounts the unique and evolving relationship between the president and vice president.Īs Baker writes: "No two Americans in public office had collaborated to such lasting effect since Richard M. Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, covered those events in real time. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina were just some of the major events that challenged the administration. 20, 2009, ending a consequential - and controversial - administration.
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