Cheney "A black cloud," Says Keating
Former Governor Frank Keating says in a new book that he thinks Vice President Dick Cheney leaked news of a cash gift from a retired New York financier to Keating's family.
The fallout from the leak could have played a role in Keating not being named as U.S. attorney general in 2001, when President Bush took office, the Tulsa World reported from its Washington Bureau.
Keating apparently never before had blamed Cheney for the leak, but did so in Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, a book written by Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman.
"It obviously came from Dick Cheney or one of his people," Keating said in the book.
"It was gratuitous, and it was petty, and it appeared vindictive to me, and it was utterly beneath the dignity of a person of Cheney's achievement. I mean, Dick Cheney coming into my life has been like a black cloud."
The fallout from the leak could have played a role in Keating not being named as U.S. attorney general in 2001, when President Bush took office, the Tulsa World reported from its Washington Bureau.
Keating apparently never before had blamed Cheney for the leak, but did so in Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, a book written by Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman.
"It obviously came from Dick Cheney or one of his people," Keating said in the book.
"It was gratuitous, and it was petty, and it appeared vindictive to me, and it was utterly beneath the dignity of a person of Cheney's achievement. I mean, Dick Cheney coming into my life has been like a black cloud."
Labels: Dick Cheney, Frank Keating
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