Cheney says his memoir will rock Washington
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 25th, 2011 4:33 am by HL
Cheney says his memoir will rock Washington
Former vice president Dick Cheney told NBC’s Dateline that his memoir will be so candid “there are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington.’’
In the book, which will be released next week, Cheney reveals that he kept a secret resignation letter locked away in a safe to be hauled out in case his health failed and he became incapacitated.
He said he prepared the letter for a couple reasons. “One was my own health situation,” he told NBC’s Jamie Gangel in an interview that will air on Aug. 29, the night before publication of “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.” “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.’’
Mitt Romney now trailing Rick Perry for GOP presidential nomination, poll shows
CLAREMONT, N.H. — All year, he was the nominal front-runner, the weak front-runner, the putative front-runner. On Wednesday, Mitt Romney stopped being the front-runner at all.
“I’m just one of the guys running,” the former Massachusetts governor told reporters here Wednesday.
As Romney returned to the campaign trail this week, he faced a new reality: He is no longer ahead of the pack in the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. A Gallup poll released Wednesday showed Texas Gov. Rick Perry with a sizable lead over Romney among Republicans and GOP-leaning independents nationally, 29 percent to 17 percent.
The Influence Industry: ‘Candidate super PACs’ surge ahead in the 2012 money race
Until this month, Steven C. Roche was one of Mitt Romney’s most trusted advisers, helping the former Massachusetts governor raise tens of millions of dollars in his long quest for the White House.
Now Roche has jumped ship to Restore Our Future, a “super PAC” dedicated to helping Romney win the presidency by raising unlimited funds from wealthy donors and corporations.
The move, first reported by the Center for Public Integrity, illustrates the rise of yet another money-raising vehicle for the 2012 elections: “candidate super PACs,” which are emerging as de facto subsidiaries of the traditional presidential campaigns.
Libyan rebels, allies implement plans to prevent anarchy in Tripoli
Among the first waves of rebels to storm Tripoli this week was a small team whose members carried smartphones along with their weapons. Under a well-rehearsed plan, they blasted Arabic text messages that would appear on tens of thousands of cellphones throughout the city.
“Don’t destroy public buildings,” one read. “These are for the future of Libya.”
The dissemination of the messages, intended to discourage looting and arson in liberated parts of the city, was among the lead items on a long to-do list that the rebels are just beginning to put into place. Developed and refined during multiple meetings in Washington, Benghazi and Doha, the list represents an attempt to anticipate every possible hiccup and challenge that could undermine Libya’s transitional government in its first weeks — from reprisal killings to power outages to sewage backups.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s children reflect on the weight of his legacy
As their father’s legacy is officially enshrined in granite on the Mall, the children of Martin Luther King Jr. have come to pay homage to their daddy.
He is the man whose powerful shadow they could never escape, whose message they were expected to further and whose image they feel called to protect.
“I try .?.?. to focus on the blessing of having been in this kind of a family,” Martin Luther King III said Wednesday in an interview at the Willard Hotel in Washington. “This is the only life I’ve ever known.”
