Charlie Savage: Cheney Plotted Bush’s Imperial Presidency ‘Thirty Years Ago’ BY SATYAM KHANNA ON OCTOBER 9, 2007 AT 4:01 PM The Bush administration has long held that President Bush’s expanded executive power is justified due to 9/11. “I believe in a strong, robust executive authority and I think that the world we live in demands it,” claimed Vice President Cheney in 2005. But in his new book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage reveals that Cheney has been on a thirty-year quest to implement his views of unfettered executive power.
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