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The Dick Cheney I Knew

Dick Cheney was a man of deep conviction and fierce loyalty. I wasn't surprised that he broke with the Republican Party to warn us against Donald Trump.

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Stuart Stevens
Nov 15, 2025
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Illustration by Riley Levine

In July, 2000, I was in Philadelphia with the Bush campaign for the Republican National Convention. For months, Mark McKinnon and I had been working on the convention film to be shown before then Governor Bush’s acceptance speech.

There’s never much for regular campaign staff to do at conventions and I was mainly focused on f…

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