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...part, Cheney visited Whittington in the intensive care unit of the hospital on Sunday night and said through an aide afterward, "I was pleased to see that Harry's doing well. He's in good spirits." The Vice President flew down to Texas on Friday after working at the White House, his office said. He remained there Sunday but did not hunt, his office said, before flying back to Washington on Sunday night. He joined Bush on Monday afternoon during an Oval Office meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, but left before reporters were allowed in for questions...
...Whittington who Bush turned to, as Texas governor in 1999, to take over the Texas Funeral Service Commission after the regulatory agency's executive director alleged that she had been fired for investigating a company headed by a financial supporter of the governor. Whittington assured the Dallas Morning News at the time that he would keep politics out of the board's work. "There is no Republican or Democratic way to bury anybody," he said. Presiding over his first meeting, Whittington said, "If any agency needs divine guidance, it's this one." The state settled a lawsuit by the former...
...Whittington, who donated $1,000 to Bush's first presidential campaign and $2,000 to his reelection, is married to Merce Whittington, who also has been active in Republican politics; they have several children, including two daughters who still live in Austin. In a profile of Whittington last year, the Austin American-Statesman described him as being old-fashioned enough that he did not have a computer or bill by the hour. Luckily for Dick Cheney, that seems to extend to his being able to laugh off being accidentally shot at by the Vice President. For a lawyer, even...
Thank goodness everyone's okay. Dick Cheney is okay and the poor man that he shot in Texas on Saturday, Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old fellow hunter, doesn't seem to be hurt too badly. It was birdshot, after all and not a bullet that hit the Texas lawyer while they were hunting in South Texas. Wire reports say Whittington is still in the hospital. The story was broken by the Corpus Christi Caller Times. According to the Vice President's Office, medical personnel, always in great abundance around a Vice President-let alone one who has had four...
...After he's done sending flowers and apologies to Mr. Whittington, Cheney would do well to get in on the joke before it gets him. The situation in Iraq is too grim to let this metaphor linger. Jon Macks, a former political consultant who is now a writer for NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno told TIME by e-mail: "Yeah it?s a 9 out of 10, this is a Tonya Harding type whack on the knee story. I don't know yet what we'll be doing but it's like a drunk airline pilot-story where...