cognoshanty

Cheney looks almost like François Truffaut after a couple glasses of wine. Relaxed, humorous... Rumsfeld looks giddy. Almost... boyish when seen next to Cheney's cool, collected expertness and Ford's avuncular senescence.

tripping on the props: a globe, a desk, a newspaper, very fitting. a flag - but what kind? and what is that weird little round thing next to rumsfeld's hand?

They are in the map room. The flag is the standard of the Cartographers' Society. The round thing is a Park Service medallion informing visitors that the area of the lawn located directly outside this window is known as "the Frolic" after certain practices observed there under Martin Van Buren.

Tripping on the term "embargoed interview" from countless articles... Embargoed by whom? Why? If it was withheld by the Ford people, then that's really sad. But not uncommon. A lot of decreasingly enthusiastic Bush supporters are letting us in on their secret diairies from three years ago about how they thought the Iraq war was a bad idea even back then but they couldn't say anything because, you know, it would have been unseemly. Unseemly three hundred thousand Iraqis dead for nothing to you too!

Woodward: Back in 2004... This was an embargoed interview, something that wasn't to come out until I did a book on him or Ford died.

Larry King, Dec. 28.

"Embargoed" makes "withheld" or "unpublished" sound so much more ponderous, doesn't it?

Map room, riiight. Isn't that the secret plans for the Death Star behind Cheney?