By Staff 5/09/06 12:30am

The Cheney Nobody Knows

Chris Matthews made a giant breakthrough tonight: He pronounced Dick Cheney’s name right. CHEE-knee. Rhymes with Meany. That’s how Cheney’s family pronounces his name. I heard his wife say it that way at the 2004 convention. And after Cheney’s hunting accident, when the Wyoming legislature had him in as a form of political Read More

By Ted Widmer 3/08/04 12:00am

Fearsome Office Warriors: Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and Co.

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet , by James Mann. Viking, 426 pages, $25.95.

Kafka’s Amerika begins with the Statue of Liberty holding a giant sword instead of a light to the world. How fitting that James Mann’s profile of the Bush foreign-policy team begins with a nearly identical Read More