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Article: Out of America: Why being part of the George Bush world means never having to say you're sorry Dick Cheney's TV 'confession' shows you can own up without standing down
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2006
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America is the land of the public confession, and in the end no
one escapes that iron rule - not even Dick Cheney. Happily, Harry
Whittington is on the way to a complete recovery from the peppering
of birdshot administered by the Vice President last weekend. Oddly
enough, the wounded 78-year-old lawyer also slipped briefly into
confessional mode as he left hospital, actually apologising for the
problems and embarrassment he had brought upon his more famous fellow
quail hunter.
But Mr Whittington will soon slide back into the obscurity from
which he came, his celebrity consisting merely of the odd reference
in a newspaper Christmas quiz, as in "Who was the only man other than
Alexander ...