Cheney’s wit
[from Romenesko]
Cheney recalls his role in a ‘76 practical joke on Naughton Chicago Tribune
Dick Cheney says he called then New York Times reporter Jim Naughton
the morning after the election in 1976 and offered him an exclusive
interview with President Ford on what it was like to lose. “It was
because Naughton had been so outrageous,” says the vice president.
“For a couple of years he’d managed to make everybody the butt of the
joke. What was especially rewarding was that when we promised him the
exclusive interview if he’d be up at Camp David that Saturday. Of
course, the President wasn’t there; he was in Palm
Springs.” (Naughton was Poynter’s president from 1996 to 2003.)