A BAD INITIAL IMPRESSION

    Watching Dick Cheney skirt responsibility, and the
Constitution, brings to mind that this past week marked the 35th
anniversary of the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s
psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding.  Mr. Ellsberg, of course, was at
the head of Nixon’s hit list, having been instrumental in the release
of the Pentagon paper but I’ve always been most fascinated by the
identities of the two main perps in this affair: former FBI agent

G. Gordon Liddy and former CIA agent, E. Howard Hunt; talk about
initial bad impressions.  Fortunately, and symbolically, President
Nixon and Vice President Cheney never chose to be called R. Milhouse
Nixon and R. Bruce Cheney, respectively, and that’s a good thing. 
Because with all due respect to all the fine men I know named Richard,
isn’t it fitting that those who know Mssrs. Nixon and Cheney, and
historically we all do, can properly address them as
Dicks.