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| Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security in Washington, 05/21/09. (photo: Reuters) |
20 August 12
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Vice President Dick Cheney would agree that he is about as right-wing
as an American politician can be, openly hostile to the federal
government's intervention in society. But one surprise from his memoir,
In My Time, is that Cheney recognizes that his personal success was made
possible by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the fact that Cheney's
father managed to land a steady job with the federal government.
"I've often reflected on how different was the utterly
stable environment he provided for his family and wondered if because
of that I have been able to take risks, to change directions, and to
leave one career path for another with hardly a second thought," Cheney
writes.
In that sense, Cheney's self-assuredness may be as
much a product of the New Deal as the many bridges, dams and other
public works that Roosevelt commissioned in the 1930s to get Americans
back to work. By contrast, the insecurity that afflicted Cheney's father
was a byproduct of the vicissitudes from laissez-faire capitalism. READ MORE
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