Word: cheneys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Addressing a nationwide television audience from Texas last night, Bush pointedly urged Gore to withdraw his legal protests and concede the election. He also named his vice presidential candidate, Dick Cheney to head his transition team and announced that former Mass. state representative Andrew Card would be his chief of staff...
...said in a 7-minute address that seemed to contain large chunks of the acceptance speech he didn't get to give on election night - common ground on education and Social Security, dreams of bipartisanship in the next Congress, praise for the size of the American heart. "Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Bush said. The transition from Austin to Washington will begin, Bush said, in the care of Dick Cheney. Bush had finally given his victory speech...
...window in Broward County with a note warning, "We will not tolerate any illegal government." Prospects that were unimaginable one day become probable the next: It will go to the House, no, to the Senate; Gore will cast the tie-break vote; Could Strom Thurmond end up president? Dick Cheney's fourth heart attack fit the script for a week of jumpy tempers and raw nerves...
...Through it all, Bush himself was strangely absent, even when he was in full view. He came before the cameras Wednesday morning to say how great Dick Cheney sounded on the phone, that his hospitalization was just a precaution; he hadn't had a heart attack, even though his own aides knew Cheney had actually had a stent placed in his artery and neglected to mention it. Asked about his next legal move, Bush referred to his legal eagles - "Jim Baker is in charge of the team in Florida, and he's doing a really good job down there...
...That a Bush administration would have Dick Cheney's heart to keep W. on his toes...