Word: cheneys
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...Given the risks of mass vaccination, the decision to launch a program can be fraught. According to Jacob Weisberg's book The Bush Tragedy, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were split in 2002 over whether to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program in the U.S. Cheney said that doing so would be a prudent counterterrorism step. Bush overruled him because the program could have resulted in dozens of deaths. (Statistical analysis has shown that the smallpox vaccine kills between one and two people per million inoculated.) Health officials don't always get the decision right...
...television. I don't really understand it, I just do my own show. I get up and just rant about whatever turned up that day. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy...
9/11 • detailed account of the ignoring by Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Rice and Rumsfeld of the increasingly ominous warnings about the imminence of the attacks that took place...
...Dick Cheney's more memorable lines. "Deficits don't matter," he told Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in 2002. Later, after O'Neill made the conversation public, Cheney elaborated that he meant this "in a political context," not an economic one. But for most of Cheney's time as Vice President, the claim held up pretty well in both contexts. Over O'Neill's objections - he'd be gone soon anyway - the Bush Administration and Congress abandoned a bipartisan commitment to fiscal prudence that had held sway since the early 1990s and went back to running chronic deficits. The result...
...economic pain, as government borrowing crowded out private investment and investors demanded higher interest rates on Treasuries to compensate for our country's shakier finances. But during the Reagan presidency, deficits stayed above 4% of GDP for five straight years - and interest rates fell, and the economy boomed. (Hence Cheney's full statement to O'Neill: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter...