"Just as we commend our troops, it is time to do our job, " said House Budget committee chairman Jim Nussle, after intense lobbying of moderate Republicans by Vice-President Dick Cheney and White House chief of staff Andrew Card.
With George W. Bush constitutionally ineligible to seek another term, and Vice President Dick Cheney passing on a White House run, the 2008 presidential nominations for both parties seem to be wide open.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney infuriated the Obama White House with his assertion on "State of the Union" that Obama changes to Bush anti-terrorism policies have made the American people less safe.
The ex-Fed chief writes that he expected more from the Bush White House, having served alongside Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld when Greenspan was one of President Gerald Ford's economic advisors.
O'Neill was such a whiz at mastering the details of Medicare and Social Security that Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff, a young guy named Dick Cheney, promoted him to deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.
After Vice President Dick Cheney personally intervened to persuade Pawlenty to stay out of the Senate race, the White House has stepped in with assistance in the tight, three-way race to replace Gov. Jesse Ventura.
Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department official who questioned the legality of the White House-backed domestic spying program in 2004, according to documents given to a Senate committee on Wednesday.
Aug. 22, 1968 Chicago White Sox pitcher Tommy John throws a pitch over the head of Detroit's Dick McAuliffe, who charges the mound.
Last night, Vice President Dick Cheney told a conservative group in Washington what he thinks of those who question whether the White House manipulated prewar intelligence.
White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry says House Speaker Newt Gingrich, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Sen.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who originally was scheduled to deliver the oath, remained at a location away from the White House as a security precaution after Sunday's U.S. and British strikes against Afghanistan.
Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
Then, after former vice president Dick Cheney used a speech on October 22 to accuse the Obama administration of "dithering" on Afghanistan, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs responded by claiming that the Bush administration did not care about U.S. troops.
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