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...late April. For one thing, he had already told Bush he wasn't interested in the job. For another, he was seen mainly as a possible bridge builder to his onetime colleague in the Bush Administration, Colin Powell. The former general remained the younger Bush's dream running mate long after Powell had privately made it clear to W. that he did not want to be considered. As recently as two weeks ago, the Governor told confidants that he was still trying to find a way to bring the wildly popular former general onto his ticket...
There are a lot of reasons why George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney as his running mate. Charisma isn't one of them. When the Gulf War ended, you could have made a ticker-tape parade just from the press clips devoted to Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf. In that media rush Cheney went mostly unnoticed, though as the hawkish Secretary of Defense, it was he as much as anyone who put in motion the military option against Saddam. That's what a retiring manner will sometimes get you. On a trip to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, when...
...Dynasty stagger from one day to the next between wearing a mask and taking a bow. On the same day that the father told the New York Times that he couldn't remember whether he'd talked to his former Defense Secretary about becoming his son's running mate, George W. was telling USA Today that "it's no sign of weakness to talk to your...
After three days of happiness, I had learned enough about Bush to predict, midday on July 21 (on tape at CNN), that he would pick Cheney as his running mate. Not only did Cheney have the good-guy characteristics prized from Kennebunkport to Austin; he was also the only person on the list to get quality time with Bush, to become a good guy in his eyes. While the others were busy submitting to psychological strip searches (tell me the worst thing about yourself) and submitting personal data for Cheney to interpret (Gov'ner, I wouldn't worry too much...
Dewey, on the cover, above, ended up the nominee, with Warren his running mate. Exulted TIME, which back then often reflected Luce's Republican leanings: "Barring a political miracle, it was the kind of ticket that could not fail to sweep the Republican Party back into power" (miracles happen). The magazine was also fulsome in its coverage of the speech by Luce's wife: "The roar of applause was punctuated by waves of laughter as blonde ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce voiced the thesis of her speech; that Harry Truman is 'a gone goose.' The Democrats, she said, were divided...