Word: cheneys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...same moment in the nearby Senate Dining Room, Cheney was getting a very different reception from the Republican Conference. There the talk was all about transition, governance and the legislative agenda--divvying up the spoils of victory. Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski wanted to know when Bush and Cheney would roll back Clinton executive orders banning oil and natural-gas drilling on public lands. (Cheney told Murkowski to send him a memo.) Strom Thurmond, who turned 98 that day, danced a little jig to demonstrate that he had no intention of going anywhere. Both sides were focused on the power-sharing...
...complains James Buchal, a Portland lawyer and author of The Great Salmon Hoax. Property-rights advocates accuse the Administration of carrying out land grabs. A series of lawsuits has been filed challenging the designation of national monuments throughout the West, including the sequoia forest. And vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney has said a Bush Administration would review many of the monument declarations Clinton has made...
...wake of Dick Cheney's most recent heart attack, everybody (this columnist included) was quick to praise both Cheney and his doctors--him for checking into the hospital without delay; them for taking aggressive action once he arrived. Almost lost in the congratulatory spin, however, was the fact that the would-be Vice President is still a sick...
Regardless of how well Cheney fields reporters' questions or waves to the cameras, he can't erase a history of four heart attacks, one quadruple-bypass surgery and a coronary artery propped open with a metal stent--all over a 22-year period in a man considered far too young to have suffered so many setbacks...
...still don't have all the facts about the state of Cheney's health, but new details revealed by his doctors last week indicate there is room for improvement. We knew that he waited until his third heart attack to quit smoking. We now know that he has gained 40 lbs. since his 1988 bypass and exercises just twice a week. His doctors can do only so much. If he wants to avoid another emergency trip to the hospital, he is going to have to take responsibility for his health and start making some changes...