miércoles, 24 de agosto de 2011

Cheney tenía una carta de dimisión preparada desde 2001



Todo Washington espera impaciente la publicación el próximo 30 de agosto de las memorias de Dick Cheney, según los historiadores el Vicepresidente más poderoso después de Garret Hobart.

Cheney adelanta algunos detalles en una entrevista con NBC News:
Dick Cheney tells NBC News that he had a letter of resignation ready from shortly after he became vice president.

“I did it because I was concerned that — for a couple of reasons,” Cheney tells Jamie Gangel. “One was my own health situation. The possibility that I might have a heart attack or a stroke that would be incapacitating. And, there is no mechanism for getting rid of a vice president who can’t function.”

Cheney kept the signed letter locked in a safe, he reveals in the memoir “In My Time,” which comes out Tuesday. President George W. Bush and a Cheney staffer knew about the letter. (...)

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