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Cheney/Edwards met before
| Tue, 10-05-2004 - 11:47pm |
Tonight on the VP debate Cheney said he has never met Edwards before tonight, but that's wrong. Here's the proof:
CHENEY: Thank you. Thank you very much. Congressman Watts, Senator Edwards, friends from across America and distinguished visitors to our country from all over the world, Lynne and I honored to be with you all this morning. I've always counted myself fortunate to have been raised in a part of the country where the Almighty chose to do some of his finest work. (LAUGHTER) Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, the Big Horn Canyon, Devil's Tower, he made them. I didn't say he named them. (LAUGHTER) Such grand surroundings have a way of keeping us humble. They help you remember that the Earth and all of us are here by the design of an intelligent and gracious creator and each of us has a purpose that He has set and that we must seek. We seek that purpose through prayer and we set aside this event each year...
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Washington Transcript Service
February 01, 2001
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY DELIVERS REMARKS AT NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST FEBRUARY 1, 2001 SPEAKER: VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD B. CHENEY

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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041006_23.html
Meeting Was Not First for Cheney, Edwards
Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. John Edwards Met Twice Before Debate Despite Cheney's Statement
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND Oct. 6, 2004 — Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the debate against Democratic Sen. John Edwards marked the first time the two had met. In fact, the two had met twice previously.
"Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight," Cheney told Edwards during the debate.
In February 2001, the vice president thanked Edwards by name at a Senate prayer breakfast. Edwards aides also said the two met when the first-term North Carolina senator accompanied, Elizabeth Dole, to her swearing-in by Cheney in January 2003.
Edwards didn't forget. The Democratic vice presidential nominee noted the discrepency at a post-debate rally in a Cleveland park and used it as an example of Cheney "still not being stratight with the American people."
"The vice president said that the first time I met Senator Edawrds was tonight when we walked on the stage. I guess he forgot the time we sat next to each other for a couple hours about three years ago. I guess he forgot the time we met at the swearing in of another senator. So, my wife Elizabeth reminded him on the stage," Edwards said as the crowd roared.
According to Edwards staff, Cheney replied, "Oh, yeah."
"She reminded him about the truth," Edwards told the crowd, "and come November, we're going to remind him that the American people do not want four more years of George W. Bush."
Cheney made the remark in accused Edwards of frequent absences from Senate votes.
photo credit and caption:
Vice President Dick Cheney, left, reaches to shake hands with Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards at the conclusion of their debate Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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Another quote showing that have met yet another time.