Young(er) Dick Cheney shown here honing those mad "Running down helpless children like a Cossack" skillz that would later serve him so well under the Dubya Regime.
This image -- and many other like it -- are to be found over at this terrific Vanity Fair slideshow.
Which also manages to capture in a single, delectable photograph
exactly why I always loved Betty Ford.
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If only Dick had just read the sign...
yep, betty had style.
I always liked Betty Ford as well. She seemed genuine, unlike the Stepford-wife we have now as First Lady.
Her husband Gerald Ford, that's a mixed bag. On the one hand, I really do think he had good intentions - mostly - to heart for this country. That would make him only the second such Republican since WWI, Ike being the other.
OTOH, he pardoned Nixon and that's a helluva drawback. Like that really swell cousin, except for that little axe murder thing.
Oh yeah, a couple drinks in Betty and she was a regular circus, no doubt about it.
Isn't that the big table in the White House where Presidential advisors sit around and decide serious shit like whether to vaporize other countries with big fucking thermonuclear bombs? If so, it's a bit unseemly to do a campy little dance pose on it, no?
physioprof,
Nah, its not that unseemly. If you look at the picture (#15 of 17 IIRC) on the Vanity Fair website, it will tell you that she did did it the last morning before Carter's inauguration. Kind of during the "down time" between admins. BTW, she was a professional dancer (Martha Graham; performed at Carnegie Hall once) before getting married, so its not the same as a regular schmoe like me wanting to dance on a televangelist's grave - but I digress.
Now if she did it in the middle of a Cabinet meeting while she was drunk, yes, that would be improper decorum.
Now, a president Giuliani in drag on that table, you've got yourself a picture.
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