Dick Cheny's Book: A Real Storm in Words.

National Review writer, Ms. Lopez, calls it a hurricane. Cheney's book, In My Time.
How different would it have been if Mr. Cheney would have been president?
An excerpt from Ms. Lopez's column.

But the conventional presentation of those parts as the whole of the book is misleading. The memoir is actually not a series of “cheap shots,” as has been commonly reported. Cheney’s book doesn’t resemble the portrait of it that the media has painted. Ironically enough, the media’s failure to give him a fair hearing was why the man wrote the book in the first place.
For example, Cheney writes about transitioning from searching for a potential vice president to becoming a potential nominee himself. He made sure to sever his financial ties with Halliburton, where he was chairman and CEO. Although “there was no legal requirement that we do so,” he writes, “Lynne and I set up an irrevocable gift trust agreement that would donate all the after-tax profits from these unvested options to three charities: the University of Wyoming, George Washington University Hospital, and Capital Partners for Education, which provides scholarships to inner-city children in Washington, D.C. That agreement has resulted in more than $8 million being donated to charity.”
That will be news to many. As Cheney recalls: “I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised, but after all the steps I had taken to guard against any possible assertion that I had an ongoing stake in the fortunes of the company, it angered me that my critics continued to make false claims about my ties to Halliburton. During the 2004 campaign, the charges were especially outrageous. Early in that campaign summer, Senator Pat Leahy conducted a conference call as a campaign surrogate in which he suggested I was being dishonest and dishonorable and was profiting from Halliburton business while I was vice president.”
This is not the biggest issue in the world. But it reflects poorly on our sense of fairness that we don’t at least care to hear a man out just because we’ve long ago established an opinion of him.

A great and truthful man. Pray for his health to improve. God bless him.

Read the rest of the column in the National Review by Kathryn Jean Lopez.