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To: michael97123 who wrote (85)	10/29/2001 10:23:25 AM
From: Cary Salsberg	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 786

This is part of the text of an interview with the VP which was broadcast on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. I heard the broadcast and was amazed. Read this selection and place it in the full context. You can find the full text at the PBS site. It is amazing that Cheney spelled out how there is effectively no President of the US. Do you believe that all the principals would meet daily to discuss war issues and Bill Clinton or George Herbert Walker Bush or John Kennedy or Richard Nixon or Dwight Eisenhower or Harry Truman or FDR would be absent. Only George W., our talking head "President." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: I've been very involved; I've been in virtually all of those meetings, a regular participant in not only NSC meetings but what we call principals meeting - principals is everybody but the president. It's all your senior NSC decision-makers. Lots of times we'll have a pre-meeting, if you will, and tee up issues, work issues before we're ready to take something to him for a decision. Those meetings, we always have an NSC meeting just about every morning and a principals meeting just about every evening at the end of the day to wrap things up, lots of meetings in-between. Participation on my part with the president when he meets with a lot of foreign leaders that come in - other cases I have my own private separate meetings with him. I hosted lunch in this room the other day, for example, with the emir of Qatar, when he was in town. He's an old friend and involved in this area and we've got forces based in Qatar.