But even as Bush asked Dick Cheney to head a transition team and named Andrew Card his chief of staff, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on--especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce.
Professor Dick van Velzen, head of foetal and infant pathology at Alder Hey between 1988 and 1995, was named by the Redfern report as being at the centre of the scandal.
Now it looks as if he is more interested in avoiding hard questions about Dick Cheney's spell as head of Halliburton or his own ties to dubious energy chiefs.