Not too surprising. But when I asked him about the Bush administration abandoning the Kyoto Treaty on global warming, Cheney showed he can surprise. We will have an aggressive, proactive policy in the area, but did not believe Kyoto was the proper approach. Such a promise can be believed when results are seen.
Nobody is more familiar with the connecting corridors of government and corporate power in America.
Cheney was chief of staff to President Ford in the 1970s, the No. 2 House GOP leader in the 1980s, and the secretary of defense in the first Bush administration. Cheney was unruffled and unimpressed. Nor does the vice president think much of the environmental protections Clinton sought to put in place before leaving office. A particularly vulnerable target is the Roadless Area Conservation Rule enacted by the Forest Service under Clinton. It is under legal assault by timber companies in an industry-friendly federal courtroom in Idaho.