Is there a key event or events that sparked Cheney's estrangement, or was it just Bush growing into the job and becoming more assertive?
Bush presidency, as it details the complicated relationship between the president and his powerful vice president, the decisions leading up to the war in Iraq, Bush's push for the "surge" in Iraq and the president's decision to bail out the nation's largest banks as the housing bubble burst.Ĭhristian Schneider: In the book, you detail how the Bush-Cheney professional relationship became more distant in the second term as they disagreed on more things - such as Iran, Syria, Lebanon, North Korea, gay rights and gun rights, among other things. where he met Donald Rumsfeld, who became a mentor during the Nixon and Ford administrations.Chief New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker talked last week with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Christian Schneider about Baker's new book, "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House." The book is, to date, the most comprehensive examination of the George W. He obtained a fellowship in Washington, D.C. He was able to get deferments because he was a student and a father. He then attended graduate school in Wyoming and Wisconsin. He stopped drinking after his wife Lynne confronted him. He married in 1964 and became a father in 1966. He returned to Wyoming where he attended a local college and the University of Wyoming. At Yale Cheney flunked out twice and was arrested for drunk driving twice. He won a scholarship funded by a friend of Bush senior who owned a local oil company. He was rebellious in school but also was co-captain of the football team and president of the senior class. They lived in a small house when he was in high school. He was eight before his parents owned a car. He learned to hunt, mowed lawns and delivered newspapers. Cheney lived in Nebraska and Wyoming as a child. Although from divergent backgrounds their experiences overlapped in several areas: Yale, the oil industry and Texas. Bush met Cheney in 1987 when he was a congressman from Wyoming and Bush was campaigning for his father, George H.W.
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