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Cheney Wasn't Puppetmaster, Say Bush Aides

Members of inner circle rip beliefs about presidency as 'hooey'

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(Newser) – Popular beliefs about the Bush presidency are way off the mark, a pair of top advisers who served throughout the administration tell the Washington Post. The idea that Vice President Dick Cheney wielded unprecedented power and pulled the strings on Bush's foreign policy is "just hooey," said Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.

The image of an out-of-touch president insulated from bad news is also pure myth, according to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, who recalls giving Bush briefings on US casualites at 7 am sharp each morning during the darkest days of the Iraq war. Both men say their boss is a lot smarter, more humble, and more humane than he is portrayed, and regret the failure of their efforts to boost his popularity.

Vice President Dick Cheney looks on as President Bush makes comments after meeting with the Counterterrorism Team in Washington last year.
Vice President Dick Cheney looks on as President Bush makes comments after meeting with the Counterterrorism Team in Washington last year.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Vice President Dick Cheney watches as President Bush delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress last year.
Vice President Dick Cheney watches as President Bush delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress last year.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Vice President Dick Cheney looks on as President Bush speaks after meeting with the Counterterrorism Team in Washington last year.
Vice President Dick Cheney looks on as President Bush speaks after meeting with the Counterterrorism Team in Washington last year.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, right, has a word with White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten before the arrival  of President Bush in Washington last year.
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, right, has a word with White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten before the arrival of President Bush in Washington last year.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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One of the mythologies is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven. - White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten

This is the one thing that just drives me crazy, that somehow this is an arrogant administration, an arrogant president running an arrogant policy. This guy—one thing he is not is arrogant. - Stephen Handley

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Newser001
Jan 3, 09 12:39 PM CST
Corona_king, that's it! I warned you about your racial slurs and bigotry - Freedom of speech does provide inclusion of racial bigotry - It's a Felony, prosecutable by the FEDs.... I'm recommending your IP address be banned from Newser and perhaps, notifying the FBI. You are cancer on society.
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jaguarj
Jan 4, 09 10:28 AM CST
Regarding menacing, KING..you are a huge menace to society..as for intimidation.??? You couldn't intimidate the lowest, dumbest species on earth...that being you..of course.
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Newser001
Jan 4, 09 12:07 PM CST
'Commie' and 'Kool Aid,' a juvenilia expression (insensately used - repeated endlessly, without remorse, or thought, nor regard to anyone's personal feelings, individualism, impact), from a truly unhealthy, narcissistic adult who may or may not have completed high school, let alone middle school. 'Commie Kool Aid' unquestionably, an affront, disrespectful inference to African-American culture.
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Newser001
Jan 2, 09 10:50 AM CST
Really? Evil and self serving as he was, he apparently had more intellect in his toe than GW had in his entire body. They're not comparable. What else would you expect from the White House spin doctors? He clearly worked Bush... Reply
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Lula
Jan 2, 09 11:18 AM CST
Cheney pulled the string and GWB was the puppet. Thank God both will be leaving 1/20/09 Reply
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