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...image of Texas hunting left by the incident. Speaking in a raspy voice while sitting up in a chair at a Corpus Christi hospital, the 78-year-old lawyer told sheriff?s deputies from Kenedy County that no one had been drinking while hunting on the Armstrong Ranch last Saturday. They had been following all the rules-both Cheney and Whittington were dressed in blaze-orange vests and hats-and it was all just an accident that Cheney, following a single quail flying low into the sunset, hit him instead. Case closed. The county sheriff, Ramon Salinas, apparently agreed...
...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...
...agreed, that she would go make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out," he said. "And I thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was an eyewitness-she'd seen the whole thing. Secondly, she'd grown up on the ranch, she'd hunted there all of her life. Third, she was the immediate past head of the Texas Wildlife and Parks Department, the game control commission in the state of Texas, an acknowledged expert in all of this. And she wanted to go to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, which...