I Confronted Dick Cheney About His Racist Joke
I Confronted Dick Cheney About His Racist Joke
Philip S. "Sam" Deloria
12/20/13
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Dick Cheney and I both started college with the Yale class of 1963; we both lived in Berkeley College, one of Yale’s residential colleges. I graduated in 1964, after taking a year off. I read that Cheney flunked out twice and finished college at the University of Wyoming. I don’t find a big irony in his flunking out of Yale; a lot of very smart people have done so. I didn’t know him well, probably never talked to him, didn’t notice when he was there and when he wasn’t; the kind of guy you nod to but don’t make conversation with. Probably the same him with me.
I saw him once at a House Interior Subcommittee hearing when he was a Member of Congress from Wyoming. I went up to him after the hearing and introduced myself, and he seemed to remember who I was. Other than the mutual howdy, we didn’t make conversation. I never know what to say to those guys.
My impression of him over the years is as one of those professional #2 guys, ever since he worked for Rumsfeld at OEO, later for Ford at the White House —the guys who like to cultivate a hatchetman image, who would be thrilled if the boss said about them, “He may be an SOB, but he’s my SOB." I think they are influenced a lot by movies and novels. Substance doesn’t seem to matter much to them—or even occur to them—but the appearance of power does.
Former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (Yale ’64) is another story. .............
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