George W. Bush et Dick Cheney: une relation trouble

Article du New York Times inspiré du livre “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House.”. On y apprend que la relation entre les deux hommes s'est refroidie avec les ans, particulièrement après le refus de Bush d'accorder un pardon présidentiel à "Scooter" Libby. Ce dernier avait largement contribué à couler dans la presse l'identité de Valérie Plame qui travaillait pour la C.I... Le mari de Plame, l'ancien ambassadeur Joe Wilson, avait critiqué les informations de la Maison Blanche justifiant l'entrée en Irak. Retour sur une relation marquante...

 "Bush and Cheney were never quite friends. They did not see each other out of the workplace. Cheney did not spend social weekends at Camp David. On election night in 2000 and again in 2004, they watched the returns separately at first, coming together only late in the evening when they thought they could publicly claim victory. “They weren’t personally close,” said Ari Fleischer, the president’s first White House press secretary. “Cheney didn’t go jogging with George Bush. He was everything that Bush designed when he chose Dick Cheney to be counselor” — meaning a veteran Washington hand who would give him straight advice.

“It was professional, more than personal,” Cheney told me after leaving office, as he sat sipping coffee in a small library in his Virginia home. “We weren’t buddies in that sense.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/the-final-insult-in-the-bush-cheney-marriage.html?pagewanted=2