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Home Front: Politix
No Presidential Run in 2008, Cheney Says
2005-02-07
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dick Cheney says he won't be running for anything after finishing his term as vice president, except maybe to the river with his grandchildren. ``I've got my plans laid out,'' Cheney said Sunday. ``I'm going to serve this president for the next four years and then I'm out of here.''

Cheney said he made it clear when he became George W. Bush's running mate that he would never run for president and nothing could change his mind. Cheney tried to put the question to rest in the starkest terms possible. ``Not only no, but hell no,'' Cheney told ``Fox News Sunday.'' He quoted Civil War Gen. William Sherman, who answered similar queries in 1884 by saying, ``If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.''

``By 2009, I'll be 68 years old,'' Cheney said. ``And I've still got a lot of rivers I'd like to fish and time I'd like to spend with my grandkids, and so this is my last tour.''
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Jefferson
Posted by: Phique Spoluper4664   2005-02-07 7:25:47 PM  

#5  Hoover was a Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge before getting the nomination for the Presidency.

John Quincy Adams was a former Sec of State, for one.
Posted by: eLarson   2005-02-07 4:21:24 PM  

#4  Has a stading Secretary of State every run for office? It's going to be a tough way to go....
Posted by: Shipman   2005-02-07 1:52:15 PM  

#3  I kinda hope he changes his mind so the left can scream "Look! Cheney Lied Again!!" And of course he would then have to win the election.
Posted by: Tibor   2005-02-07 1:29:03 PM  

#2  They already did. It's called the Condi confirmation hearings.
Posted by: true nuff   2005-02-07 1:09:56 PM  

#1  oooh I can see the dem's going into overdrive now trying to nail down who's going to be the repub nominee for 08 and trying to start a smear campaign early.
Posted by: Valentine   2005-02-07 5:34:43 AM  

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