“We don’t want to leave anyone in the battlefield.” These were the words that former United States vice president Dick Cheney said to his boss, George W Bush as the two men were preparing to leave the White House after eight tumultuous years. The words were uttered at a very difficult moment of the two men’s long relationship. Cheney was unhappy that his former aide who had been convicted two years prior was not getting a presidential pardon from the departing Bush. These words became a fixation for Cheney so much so that at one point they threatened to bring the two men’s relationship to a breaking point.
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