Date: November 20th, 2025 2:42 PM
Author: cannon
https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/11/05/donald-rumsfeld-hits-back-at-91-year-old-george-hw-bush-says-hes-getting-up-in-years-after-former-prez-slams-him-dick-cheney-in-biography/
Bush, however, wasn’t any easier on Dick Cheney, who served as his own Defense Secretary before, years later, serving as George W. Bush’s vice president.
“He had his own empire there and marched to his own drummer,” Bush told Meacham about Cheney. “It just showed me that you cannot do it that way. The president should not have that worry.”
“The big mistake that was made was letting Cheney bring in kind of his own State Department,” Bush, now 91, said.
He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with,” Bush said, according to the excerpts and interviews. “Just iron-ass. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East.”
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