http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/ 15 en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:37 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Jo Becker and Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, June 27, 2007; Page A01 Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001. A phone message awaited her. "This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview. "I understand you are the person handling this Klamath situation. Please call me at -- hmm, I guess I don't know my own number. I'm over at the White House." Getty Images"> Getty Images">Enlarge Photo The vice president has intervened in many cases to undercut long-standing environmental rules for the benefit of business. Here, Cheney is photographed during an August 2004 family vacation in Moose, Wyoming. Getty ImagesMore photos >> Wooldridge wrote off the message as a prank. It was not. Cheney had reached far down the chain of command, on... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/leaving_no_tracks/ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/leaving_no_tracks/ Chapters Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:37 -0500 By Jo Becker and Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, June 26, 2007; Page A01 Air Force Two touched down at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in West Virginia on Feb. 6, 2003, carrying Vice President Cheney to the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders. He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut. Corbis"> Corbis">Enlarge Photo When the president announced his economic package the day after this Cabinet meeting in January 2003, Cheney had one more thing to add. Corbis Cheney had spent months making sure the package contained everything he wanted. One thing was missing. The president had accepted Cheney's diagnosis that the sluggish economy needed a jolt, overruling senior economic advisers who forecast dangerous budget deficits. But Bush rejected one of Cheney's remedies: deep reductions in the capital gains tax on investments. The vice... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/ Chapters Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:51 -0500 ... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/pushing_the_envelope_on_presi/ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/pushing_the_envelope_on_presi/ Chapters Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:43:23 -0500 ... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/chapter_1/ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/chapter_1/ Chapters Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:04:53 -0500