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...minute interview, the taciturn Cheney did not express regret about the way he handled the situation, but took responsibility for the shooting and came as close as he ever has to showing public emotion. "The image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind," Cheney said. "I fired, and there's Harry falling. And it was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life, at that moment." Whittington was about 30 yards away, Cheney estimated. "We went over to him, obviously, right away," he added...
...Cheney told Hume in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office, next to the White House in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, that he "had a beer at lunch" during a barbecue under an ancient oak tree on the ranch. "After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters," he said. "Then we took about an hour-long tour of ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m. The five of us who were in that party...
...most controversial element of the Cheney response was his insistence, against the advice of White House communications experts, on dispensing with the usual protocols for announcing news about the President and the Vice President and releasing word of the shooting by having Katharine Armstrong, an owner of the Texas ranch where it occurred, call her local paper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, with an eyewitness account...
...Cheney said he still thinks that was the right call. "I still do," he said. "I still think that the accuracy was enormously important. I had no press person with me. I didn't have any press people with me. I was there on a private weekend with friends on a private ranch." He said Armstrong "was a good mutual friend," and noted that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has also hunted at the Armstrong ranch...
...Cheney said he was more concerned about accuracy than speed. "I do think what I've experienced over the years here in Washington is as the media outlets have proliferated, speed has become sort of a driving force, lots of time at the expense of accuracy," he said. The Vice President added that White House Counselor Dan Bartlett and Press Secretary Scott McClellan "urged us to get the story out," but that "the decision about how it got out, basically, was my responsibility...