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Remarks by the Vice President and Mrs. Cheney Followed by Question and Answer at a Town Hall Meeting Cirrus Design Corporation Duluth, Minnesota

............So with that, let me stop and we'll go to a Q&A session. We've got proctors in the audience with microphones -- you'll note they're the people in the orange shirts.

MRS. CHENEY: Dick, what do those orange shirts remind you of? (Laughter.) I'll say it. (Laughter.) How about John Kerry's suntan? (Laughter and applause.)

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Oh, I may have to disassociate myself from -- (laughter.) We're trying to bring her along -- she's doing good, that was a good line; it was a good line.

But what we'll do, if you've got a question, I'm going to ask just grab the attention of a proctor and I'll call on you and we'll get a chance to do some questions. Yes.

[SandRat]

I love the Hugh Hewitt line about Kerry's Orange color.

"Kerry's in the three phases of a pumpkin:

- Bright Orange in late September

- Carved up by late October, and

- Tossed in the trash in early November!"