Bush Considered Replacing Cheney Before 2004 Election
WASHINGTON (FoxNews.com) - Former President George W. Bush says in his new memoir that he considered running for re-election in 2004 without Dick Cheney as his vice presidential candidate. After much thought, he ultimately decided to keep Cheney on the ticket.
Bush said he wanted to put an end to assertions by critics that Cheney was the real decision-maker and to "demonstrate that I was in charge."
He writes that he spent weeks exploring the possibility of replacing Cheney with Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, who was Senate majority leader. But he says he valued the qualities Cheney brought to their partnership and finally decided to stick with his vice president, who agreed to run again.
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Bush said he wanted to put an end to assertions by critics that Cheney was the real decision-maker and to "demonstrate that I was in charge."
He writes that he spent weeks exploring the possibility of replacing Cheney with Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, who was Senate majority leader. But he says he valued the qualities Cheney brought to their partnership and finally decided to stick with his vice president, who agreed to run again.
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posted by BP News Bureau | 12:06 PM
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(Hot Air) - Actually, that wasn’t the first time that Bush had proposed kicking a sitting VP off of a ticket for help in a re-election campaign. In 1992, he tried convincing his father to dump Dan Quayle to improve [his] chances of beating Bill Clinton. Who did Bush propose to replace him? 'Dick Cheney'.
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