Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements

Brian Zick

The Smoking Gun has obtained a copy of a document, created by the Office of the Vice President and provided to hotels where Cheney will be staying, specifying Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements (in other words, Dick Cheney's Hotel Suite Demands) it's a quite modest list of requests (as TSG notes, there's "no extract-the-brown-M&M demands here") but there is this notable little glimpse of the man's sense of priority: "All Televisions Tuned to FOX News (please let the Advance Office know if it is satellite or cable television)"

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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