On the recordMarch 6, 2007
I took great umbrage at that. I was very, very upset about that, because Vice President Cheney has been an outstanding servant of this country for a long, long time. I had the pleasure of serving with Vice President Cheney when he served in this body as the Republican whip. He worked very hard in the Ford administration as the chief of staff. I don't know that anybody has ever really been able to question his integrity, because he is a man of integrity, and he has been trying his best to assist the President of the United States in dealing with some very, very troubling issues, not the least of which are the war against terror and the war in Iraq. I will just say that I think it is very, very bad taste for anyone to infer, even infer, that the Vice President of the United States, Mr. Cheney, who has done such an outstanding job for this country over a long period of time, should be better off dead.
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