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“Cheney’s strategy for gaining power was the same one he and Rumsfeld had foisted on Ford: making sure no one in the Republican Party outflanked him to the right. This was a deeply divisive approach, because it involved pandering to racial and religious extremists and using complex matters of national security as flag-waving wedge issues. “Dick’s votes against civil rights and the environment were parts of complex deals aimed at enhancing his own power,”
The Curse of Dick Cheney - T.D. Allman, RollingStone
