In My Time - Dick Cheney [281]
Lynne and I have been blessed with a loving family, our parents, our brothers, my sister, our children, and our grandchildren, and I see this book as a tribute to them all. Lynne and I are also grateful for the many friends with whom we have shared our lives in Wyoming, Washington, and around the world. Many are mentioned in this book, but too briefly to reflect the depths of our gratitude, and I would like to conclude by acknowledging to all of them how much their support has meant. We are fortunate to have such friends.
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2 shortly before 10:00 a.m.: Many timelines have been constructed for 9/11, and there is variation among them. The times in the Prologue are based on The 9/11 Commission Report (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), notes taken that day by Lynne Cheney, and my recollections.
60 wigs and toupees: Federal Register, vol. 36, no. 220, November 13, 1971, p. 21789.
62 effort to freeze prices: Allen J. Matusow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, & Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), p. 231.
87 in the Oval Office: Rumsfeld Papers, Memorandum for Don Rumsfeld from Dick Cheney, July 8, 1975, http://library.rumsfeld.com/doclib/sp/158/07-08-1975%20From%20Dick%20Cheney%20re%20Solzhenitsyn.pdf.
90 pretty frank document: Rumsfeld Papers, Memorandum for the President from Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, October 24, 1975, http://library.rumsfeld.com/doclib/sp/174/1975-10-24%20To%20Gerald%20Ford%20re%20Re-elec tion%20and%20Rumsfeld%20and%20Cheney%20Resignations.pdf.
219 pilots called it “tank plinking”: Rick Atkinson, Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993), p. 264.
220 from using its WMD: Keith Payne, Deterrence in the Second Nuclear Age (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996), pp. 83–84.
221 “too dear and too high”: Ibid.
233 “on a rational basis”: Colin Powell, My American Journey (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 541.
235 DPG represented a shift: For more on the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance and our post–Cold War defense posture, see chapters by Paul Wolfowitz and Eric Edelman in In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11, eds. Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).
269 “softest of sells”: Ronald Brownstein, “A Strong Case for Change Is Played Down,” Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2000.
276 “nine days of hell”: Mary Cheney, Now It’s My Turn: A Daughter’s Chronicle of Political Life (New York: Threshold Editions, 2006), p. 64.
286 by 5 percent: Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight (New York: Threshold Editions, 2010), p. 193.
301 “shook our hands”: Linda D. Kozaryn, “President Hosts Nation’s Combat Heroes,” American Forces Press Service, January 23, 2001, http://www.defense.gov/specials/outreachpublic/hosts.html.
307 attend very often: Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 1038.
316 “nation’s energy security”: National Energy Policy Development Group, National Energy Policy: Reliable, Affordable, and Environmentally Sound Energy for America’s Future, May 16, 2001, http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdffiles/nationalenergypolicy.pdf.
316 during the biofuels craze: Michael Grunwald, “The Clean Energy Scam,” Time, March 27, 2008.
319 “first line of defense”: Nicholas Lemann, “The Quiet Man: Dick Cheney’s Discreet Rise to Unprecedented Power,” The New Yorker, May 7, 2001.
326 right thing to do: See Richard B. Cheney, Remarks at the Heritage Foundation Dinner Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, March 11, 2008,