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...time during a Bush Administration, Bush's choice to succeed Cheney would have to be approved by both houses of Congress, a process set out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. In 1973, when Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to step down in a kickback scandal, Richard Nixon named Gerald Ford to replace him, in part because Ford was House minority leader, which made quick approval in Congress more likely. By contrast, Ford's selection of Nelson Rockefeller, a congressional outsider, was held up for months by hearings into Rockefeller's finances...
...last time Congress decided a dispute between electors was in 1960, when Richard Nixon won the initial count in Hawaii and John Kennedy won the recount. But little was at stake then, since Kennedy already had the Electoral College votes he needed. Presumably, the Republican-dominated House would be inclined to select Bush. The prospect of Congress selecting the next President is odd enough. Making it even more surreal: the presiding officer at such a proceeding would be Vice President Al Gore...
...odious or ordinary. But becoming president makes him suddenly splendid - or at least impressive. The magic office gives him the radiance of power. In early 1969, the Washington Post's liberal cartoonist Herblock granted to his old nemesis Richard Nixon a famous "free shave" - a fresh start, the refulgence that comes with the Oval...
Thousands of noisy Bush and Gore partisans jammed the side walks surrounding the marble-columned courthouse, waving signs that read "Kiss My Chad," "Give Up, You Lost," "We've Been Bushwhacked," "Gore Makes Nixon Look Good." Helmeted police lined the sidewalk, ready to intervene if necessary. But the crowd was in high spirits, ready to party. A man in an Uncle Sam costume paced the sidewalk. A woman reached her hands to the sky, loudly praising God for the countless blessings of democracy. One man paraded with a sign saying, "From Monica to Chads. Enough is Enough." All that...
...veteran of five transitions himself (including the tricky Nixon-Ford one), Cheney also bemoaned with a lip-curl the "admittedly unusual circumstances" that had wasted three weeks of the normal 10-week turnaround time. "A transition has a direct bearing on the quality of administration that follows it," he said. "Whatever the vice president's decision, that does not change our obligation...