NEW YORK, June 24, 2009

Cheney Memoir Planned For 2011

Former Vice President's Book Will Debut A Few Months After Bush's Comes Out

  • Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Awards luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington earlier this month.

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Awards luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington earlier this month.  (AP)

(AP)  Former Vice President Dick Cheney has a book deal with a conservative imprint at Simon & Schuster.

The memoir by Cheney, widely considered the most powerful vice president in history, is expected to be published in Spring 2011, a few months after President George W. Bush's book comes out. Cheney's work is currently untitled and will cover his long career in government, from chief of staff under President Ford to vice president under Bush.

Known for his secrecy while in the Bush administration, Cheney has made clear for months that he was planning a book. He is working on it from his home outside of Washington, D.C., with the assistance of his daughter, Liz Cheney.


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by watkinsjr2000 June 24, 2009 12:07 PM EDT
Haven't we already heard enough from this right-wing gasbag to last us a lifetime?
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by ajjaxtheleast June 24, 2009 8:38 AM EDT
WHY NOT 2009 or 2010,,,?????

Because cheney wont complete his creative writing
course till the end of 2010,,,,

,,,where Bush with a proven record of 935 incidents
of decreed "creativity" fashioned at such a level of
imagination that they got him into making an illegal
invasion of another country look like a mission of
mercy obviously merely has to sit down, being careful
not to miss the chair spilling his Jack Daniels, and
have someone type out his "memoirs" for him.
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by quapawsix June 24, 2009 8:03 AM EDT
I can see it now The Big Book of 1,001 ways to torture and steal Billions in bogus Government contracts.
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by quapawsix June 24, 2009 7:58 AM EDT
Boycott Cheney's Book don't buy it, he's a liar and a war criminal.
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by omnibus66 June 24, 2009 7:46 AM EDT
There are still millions of misguided people out there who consider Bush and Cheney as heroes. Most of them have money and a lot of them will buy both books. I wonder if either one will come with the crayons?
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by skyk-2009 June 24, 2009 7:11 AM EDT
This Disgusting piece of Human Garbage shouldn't be writing anything! He should be in JAIL! I just wish the tired old dictator would go way... far away and PLEASE sir, do us all a favor and DIE!!
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by voxpopulus June 24, 2009 7:10 AM EDT
"The Prison Diaries"? We can but hope.
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by r9119111 June 24, 2009 4:15 AM EDT
I don't plan to buy it. It will be a book of excuses, lies and deceptions
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by veils-2009 June 24, 2009 3:48 AM EDT
Bush's book will be a coloring comic book format mainly about his having the most vacation time of any president with a dikchunary of his own words in the back.
Cheney's book will be encrypted, and no one but him will be able to unencrypt it and all copies will be kept in a secret undisclosed location.
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by riob678 June 24, 2009 3:35 AM EDT
It's not inconsequential that George W. Bush was the least intelligent, most easily deceived, and poorly advised president in history. All the credit doesn't go to Dick Cheney!
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by stn_sage June 24, 2009 3:35 AM EDT
LOL! You'd have to be TOTALLY bored of life to want to read anything Cheney has to say! What a laugh!

It ought to be the biggest collection of lies, distortions, and outright contempt for the public since Richard Nixon released his parting thoughts!
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by Ordflyer June 24, 2009 2:25 AM EDT
I'm looking forward to hearing about his weekly meetings with Beelzebub - The Dark Lord of Evil.

Cheney was the most powerful, and most sinister, secretive and deceptive, VP in history. Let's remember to thank him for that little mess he got us into in Iraq - THANKS DICK!!
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by christiansin June 24, 2009 1:59 AM EDT
Is Bush writing a coloring book? Or is it a knock-off of the "Where's Waldo" books entitled "Where's Osama?"

Is Cheney's book going to be a sequel to the Necronomicon?

:D
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by whatdableep June 24, 2009 1:53 AM EDT
I thought showing Dick was censored by the FCC?
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by riob678 June 24, 2009 1:51 AM EDT
Bush's and Cheney's memoirs will both be library indexed under, 'fiction - comedy of the absurd.'
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by vielmann June 24, 2009 1:33 AM EDT
Does anyone really care?
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