Wittington: He Has Been Go-To Guy In Texas Political Scene

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/15/AR2006021502435_pf.html


Whittington Is Known as a GOP Bulwark
He Has Been Go-To Guy In Texas Political Scene


Harry Whittington has been a well-known fixture on the Texas political landscape for half a century, a distinguished lawyer to whom governors have turned to help clean up messes, a Republican statesman before there was much of a Republican Party in the state.

He and Dick Cheney were little more than acquaintances before last weekend, when the vice president accidentally sprayed him with birdshot, landing the 78-year-old in an intensive care unit in Corpus Christi. But friends say that Whittington is exactly the kind of man a host would include in a hunting party with the vice president of the United States.
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are these first two sentences true? he is a mess cleaner upper like Baker? snake Cheney barely knew him?

Lois Romano and Dan Balz wrote it.