Word: ranched
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...Whittington and said, "Harry, I had no idea you [were] there," but his friend "didn't respond" at first, possibly because he was stunned.? Whittington was wearing hunting glasses that protected his eyes. He arrived at a nearby emergency room within less than an hour after leaving the ranch, then was taken by helicopter to Corpus Christi.? Cheney did not accompany his friend to the hospital because the ambulance was crowded and instead went to ranch headquarters.? "We did not know until Sunday morning that we could be confident that everything was probably going to be okay," Cheney said.? Cheney...
...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...
...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...
...Stephen Harper making his first foreign trip to George W. Bush's Texas ranch or even to Washington. The first overseas journey for Canada's newly sworn-in Prime Minister is likely to take him to Afghanistan. "He wants to go where Canadians are on the front lines today in the war on global terrorism," says an Ottawa source familiar with the new government's thinking on foreign policy. "One of the first briefings he got was from the defense staff on the role Canada was playing in Afghanistan, so a trip there would be very symbolic...