The best details from Barton Gellman’s new book on the vice president.<\/p>\n
By Juliet Lapidos (Slate.com)<\/p>\n
It’s often said on late-night TV that given Dick Cheney’s cardiovascular problems, George W. Bush is just a heartbeat away from the presidency. In his new book, Angler, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman suggests that this joke contains more than just a grain of truth. By immersing himself in details about national security and numerous other hot-button issues that the president was too lazy or too incurious to study, Cheney often managed to position himself as the real “decider.”<\/p>\n
For those of you who are too lazy or too incurious to read Gellman’s lengthy expos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"