Bush Considered Dropping Cheney From 2004 Ticket

Peter Baker in a New York TImes blog writes Bush Considered Dropping Cheney From 2004 Ticket. It offers various tidbits from Bush's upcoming memoir.

"President George W. Bush considered dumping Vice President Dick Cheney from his 2004 reelection ticket to dispel the myths about Mr. Cheney’s power in the White House and ‘demonstrate that I was in charge,’ the former president says in a new memoir."

I think the next sentence is brilliantly ironic: "The idea came from Mr. Cheney, who offered to drop out of the race one day during a private lunch between the two men in mid-2003."