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...that it includes only one President, now and forever more. This is all but an article of faith in Washington: as budget director Mitch Daniels puts it, Cheney's title is "Senior Adviser Without Future Political Ambition." As Bush happily told some congressional guests early in his first term, "Dick's doing a good job because he's told me he doesn't want to be President." Cheney had his fourth heart attack in November 2000, amidst the Florida recount drama--which lent him further credibility as one who can be appointed but not elected. "For the first time since...
...might be more accurate to say that Dick Cheney is plenty ambitious, just not the way everyone assumes. Cheney knows that his not wanting power for himself allows Bush to give it to him. Bush put Cheney in charge of his transition because it sent an instant signal about Cheney's clout: "I want Dick to build up some political capital," Bush would say, "so he can go up to Capitol Hill and spend it." Ambitious lawmakers who may run one day themselves did not see Cheney as a rival. The Vice President sat at the Senate's G.O.P. policy...
Bush's Secretary of State COLIN POWELL, a moderate in an Administration full of hard-liners, has maintained near perfect decorum with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in public. But the three men fought pitched battles behind the scenes over most of the Administration's foreign policies. For the first time this year, Powell started winning a few. Powell, 65, has long taken exception to the conservatives' muscular brand of unilateralism, arguing instead that the U.S. should act in concert with allies. He scored a crucial victory in August when he persuaded President Bush to engage the U.N. before attacking...
...natural contender. That was certainly the case this year, since America seems on the verge of going to war with Iraq. But instead of just looking at George W. Bush, who was TIME's Person of the Year in 2000, we decided to explore the relationship between Bush and Dick Cheney, the most influential Vice President in memory and a prime architect of the country's war against terrorism. The team has lots to take credit for this year, but many would argue that some of its most important goals--the capture of Osama bin Laden, the removal of Saddam...
...moral attention but not the uniform. 2001 couldn't last. It was the temporary, shocked pulling together of a feuding family after a sudden death. 2001 gave us the music community performing A Tribute to Heroes. 2002 gave us Eminem electrocuting Dick Cheney (in the video for Without Me) and country singer Toby Keith, in his controversial song Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, promising the nation's enemies, "We'll put a boot in your ass/It's the American way." The culture wars returned, with books from political playground scrappers like Michael Moore and Sean Hannity. Online...