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George Bush’s White House was straight out of Hollywood

It’s the very end of George W. Bush’s second presidential term, and Dick Cheney comes to see him in the White House to talk pardons.

It’s the very end of George W. Bush’s second presidential term, and Dick Cheney comes to see him in the White House to talk pardons.

It’s the very end of George W. Bush’s second presidential term, and Dick Cheney comes to see him in the White House to talk pardons. Specifically, Cheney wants a pardon for Scooter Libby, a man notorious not, as you might expect, for existing under his own porn star name (it’s a game; you take the name of your first pet and your mother’s maiden name and put them together — trust me, it’s hilarious), but for...

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