Senior White House aides also called Cheney's remarks as a pre-emptive move to reduce economic expectations for a Bush-Cheney administration.
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Bush and Cheney spent several hours over the past few days preparing, aides said.
Until now, the Bush-Cheney team has spent most of its time doing two things.
Bush and Cheney never really grasped the way to use and grow presidential power effectively.
Myth No. 2: The Bush-Cheney tax cuts help America's economy in the short term.
Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, took issue with Kerry's comments.
He was, after all, a self-professed Clinton-Gore Democrat who morphed into a Bush-Cheney Republican.
Bush and Cheney have to be given time to say farewell to their party.
Now, the pundits would have us believe that Bush and Cheney are on the defensive on defense.
Still Gore acknowledges the effectiveness of the Bush-Cheney campaign's emphasis on restoring "honor and integrity" to the White House.
The Bush- Cheney campaign, in conjunction with the state and national parties, is solely responsible for the Republican operation.
W. Bush picked Cheney as Defense secretary, and he helped lead Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991.
Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc Racicot and Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called the FEC decision "irresponsible" in a joint statement.
That may help him draw issue contrasts with the Bush-Cheney ticket, but only at the expense of his own personal image.
Bush and Cheney have been discussing a more normal routine, including Cheney's return to the White House during the next few days.
In July, after Bush picked Cheney as his running mate, two of his doctors issued letters giving him a clean bill of health.
Fortunately, the Bush-Cheney administration has just put out the word that it has not ruled out increasing the defense budget this year, after all.
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Those qualities represented a positive contrast from the Bush-Cheney years and seemed like enough to begin pulling the nation out of a deep recession.
O'Neill told friends later that Bush and Cheney made him feel like an instant insider, and he was happy the conversation had been so candid.
He has had a longtime association with former President George W. Bush, serving in several capacities under his presidency, the Bush-Cheney transition team and Texas governorship.
Bush and Cheney also embraced a vision of presidential power that revolved around a largely unregulated and centralized executive branch with massive authority over the citizenry.
Of particular concern to the Bush-Cheney administration is that Mr. Robinson says about 40% of companies on his private list are oil concerns or energy-related firms.
Mr Obama wants to prove that he represents a new kind of leadership, as different as you can get from that of Messrs Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Edwards had wanted a podium or town hall format, but at the Bush-Cheney team's insistence, the two will sit a few feet from each other across a desk.
If you like the Bush-Cheney approach, John McCain's your man.
Before Bush-Cheney, even if the rest of the world often chafed at America's acting like the world's policeman, most viewed America's actions as based on morality and a transparent rule of law.
John Kerry's difficulty in controlling the agenda, the Bush-Cheney campaign sought to build on its momentum and determined to put national security front and center on the Republican National Convention's first day.
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and two members of his staff plan to join Bush and Cheney for a session that has no firm timetable, but that senior White House officials expect to run about two hours.
Bush aides say Cheney is far more involved than Bush with both the transition and the postelection recount struggles.
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