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There is nothing in this story that I had not read and heard Cheney describe on tv shortly after 9-11. I believe on the Tim Russrt show. It amazes me how short is the memory of the public, if they paid attention in the frst place.
Before you go yaya over that picture. Remember that a couple hours after the first plane hit the WTC, Cheney was still in his White House Office. It was only when Flight 93 was headed for the White House that the Secret Service picked him and carried him to the Bunker. I'm not saying he wasnt leading the response, but his own testimony on Meet the Press indicates he was in his office until the SS agents whisked him away as planes intruded on Washington airspace.
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TERESA HEINZ KERRY: You know, it's very interesting. I landed at National Airport less than 12 hours before, coming from Pennsylvania, where I was doing a prescription drugs thing -- meeting. And I came in from Pittsburgh, landed at National, and that's the last time I landed at National for quite a while.
LARRY KING: How'd you hear about it?
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: I was at home in Washington. I had just come in and I got a call...
JOHN KERRY: I think I called.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: And they said, look at the TV. I looked at the TV and I couldn't believe it.
LARRY KING: Where were you?
JOHN KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. AND WE SHORTLY THEREAFTER SAT DOWN AT THE TABLE AND THEN WE JUST REALIZED NOBODY COULD THINK, and then boom (editor's note: 35 minutes later), right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: You walked out with John McCain, didn't you?
JOHN KERRY: Yes.
LARRY KING: You and what?
TERESA HEINZ KERRY: He and John walked out together.
LARRY KING: He and John McCain walked out -- what did you think? Did you think?