Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he has proof that he wasn’t the top dog in the Bush White House. And that evidence is his own dog’s treatment.
Cheney, being interviewed by daughter Liz at Thursday’s Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum, said he would often bring Dave, his big yellow lab, up to Camp David. “He loved it up there, chasing squirrels and so forth,” Cheney explained.
One morning he took Dave down with him to the lower lodge, where President Bush had his quarters. “[I] walked in and there was Barney, the president’s little Scottie, who looked a lot like a squirrel —don’t tell the president I said that,” he said. Dave started chasing Barney around the room, creating a ruckus that the president walked in on.
The vice president got his dog secured in his own cabin when someone knocked at the door. “It was the camp commander, Navy commander, all decked out in his full uniform and he said, ‘sir, until further notice your dog Dave is banned from the lower lodge,'” Cheney recalled. “So the president never said a word to me, but that will tell you who was running the show, it wasn’t me.”
