[lbo-talk] Cheney's wit

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 20 09:54:34 PDT 2006


[from Romenesko]

Cheney recalls his role in a '76 practical joke on Naughton Chicago Tribune

Dick Cheney says he called then New York Times reporter Jim Naughton the morning after the election in 1976 and offered him an exclusive interview with President Ford on what it was like to lose. "It was because Naughton had been so outrageous," says the vice president. "For a couple of years he'd managed to make everybody the butt of the joke. What was especially rewarding was that when we promised him the exclusive interview if he'd be up at Camp David that Saturday. Of course, the President wasn't there; he was in Palm Springs." (Naughton was Poynter's president from 1996 to 2003.)



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