We've got a boy emperor/decider at the top of the slag heap...and a weirder, creepier version of Linus riding shotgun:
Purdum reports that Cheney travels with a chemical-biological suit at all times. When he gave his friend Robin West and his twin children a ride to the White House a couple of years ago, West commented on the fact that Cheney's motorcade varied its daily path. "And he said, 'Yeah, we take different routes so that "The Jackal" can't get me,'" West tells Purdum. "And then there was this big duffel bag in the middle of the backseat, and I said, 'What's that? It's not very roomy in here.' And [Cheney] said, 'No, because it's a chemical-biological suit,' and he looked at it and said, 'Robin, there's only one. You lose.'"
And if this doesn't smack of obsessive/compulsive...and just plain bad for a guy working on heart attack number five, I don't know what does:
At a roundtable lunch with reporters a couple of years ago, two who were present tell Purdum that Cheney cut his buffalo steak into bite-size pieces the moment it arrived, then proceeded to salt each side of each piece.
Well, the hazmat suit could double as a body bag, I guess...
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