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...setting the tone but letting his team of professionals do their job. CEO-style corporate diplomacy - smooth, unhurried, competent, straight down from the top. And no leaks about big decisions by anyone but the boss. Thursday Bush was eating his regular lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney - the veep eating salad, Bush a taco - when the crew landed on American soil. "Good news," Bush said, as the landing was broadcast on a television the two were watching. "Welcome home...
...health problems were to force Cheney to slow down and reduce his portfolio--adopting work habits more like Bush's--the President would at the very least have to make adjustments to his routine. A lightened Cheney work load wouldn't rob Bush of his Veep's most important function--offering advice and counsel--but it would put a heavier burden on other top aides. Bush might have to do more of the things Cheney now does for him that staff members can't, like tending to conservatives on Capitol Hill and resolving disputes between Cabinet Secretaries. If Cheney were...
...Inaugural platform and not see instantly that the two had lost their Boys on the Bus glow. Still, it's amazing that, like two estranged lovers arguing over who left the cap off the toothpaste, they skipped over the substance and focused on old slights. How had the Veep, who had lunched privately with the President every week in earlier days, only now got around to getting "things off his chest"? It's equally amazing that Clinton was surprised when Gore went into their last meeting still "knotted up" over the Lewinsky affair, "the elephant in the living room...
...four heart attacks, and though he's only 5 1/2 years older than Dubya (Cheney turned 60 last week), his physique is decidedly old school--more like former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's than our gym-addicted President's. Does he have the stamina to be the most powerful Veep in history...
...appears to be holding up well so far. Since suffering a mild heart attack in November, Cheney has been working out for half an hour every morning on a treadmill and an elliptical trainer--one part cross-country ski machine, one part stair climber. The Veep's cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, says Cheney is "doing great, doing all the right things, looking great." That means sacrifice. Cheney, an able chef who is known for preparing grilled meats, beef stew and spaghetti--and for tucking into roast beef sandwiches, ribs and bratwurst on the campaign trail--seems to have trimmed...