The Case For Speaking Ill Of The Dead
Cheney explains the whole legacy thing to Larry King:
“I saw Jerry Ford, when I served with him, when I first met you, Jerry was — President Ford was down — it was 70 percent when he started. He ended up in the 30s. Later, 30 years later, obviously, just last year, when he passed away and we had memorial services and so forth for him, he was held in very high regard; across the country his praises were sung for some of the really tough decisions he made that were very unpopular at the time.”