And in a new biography, former President George H. 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. Bush said. I think he paid a price for that. Bush off the hook entirely. Most prominently, Bush and Rumsfeld have been rivals for power since Gerald Ford was president.
Cheney addresses Bush ‘41’ criticism, admits he was ‘iron ass’ as vice president
George H.W. Bush death: Dick Cheney responds to 'iron ass' label
Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. Lewis Scooter Libby. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point—and perhaps past it—over the fate of his former aide.
In the final days of his presidency, George W. Bush sat behind his desk in the Oval Office, chewing gum and staring into the distance as two White House lawyers briefed him on the possible last-minute pardon of I. Lewis Libby. For the past two months Cheney had been pushing the president to grant Libby a full pardon before they left office. He would not let it go.
George W. Bush and his father underestimated the extent to which Dick Cheney was dedicated to his own political and foreign-policy agendas. We are probably too quick to declare any family that has produced more than one elected officeholder to be a political dynasty: many other democratic countries India, the Philippines, Argentina are far more dynastic than the United States.