Bush adviser: Cheney has agreed that it was time to give diplomacy more of a try

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070319/bush_and_cheney_still_best_fri.htm

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White House officials say President Bush and Vice President Cheney remain close, despite media reports that Bush and Cheney have become estranged. Those reports intensified recently after Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, was convicted of perjury and obstructing justice in the CIA leak case.

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"Pragmatism," says the adviser. Cheney agreed that it was time to give diplomacy more of a try, now that it's clear that President Bush will hang tough when he has to. "It's not an ideological slap in the face of the vice president," the adviser says. Cheney has also become more visible lately on the speaking circuit, indicating that he is still a valued spokesman for the president.

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1. No words.

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[Rageneau]

2. Cheney also decided to start throwing water, not gasoline, on fires.

But don't think he did so without using up all the gfasoline he had.