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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One. Hello, America, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America.

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I want to start not with the big news headlines of the day, but one in particular you have by now heard.

The former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, is dead. Richard B. Cheney.

I keep Dick Cheney's... Oh my God, maybe I shouldn't tell you guys this.

I keep Dick Cheney's picture in my favorites section of my iPhone, and whenever anyone suggests sending an appropriate picture, I reply with my Dick Cheney pick.

He found it funny. I knew Dick Cheney.

When I was a young blogger on the right, you know, I had been a lawyer for President Bush's

campaign in 2000. Volunteer wasn't on the main staff, was just in Georgia. And then in 2004, my friends, Ben, Josh, and Mike started Red State, put me in charge of it.

And by 2005, I was interacting with Dick Cheney's staff and with George W. Bush's staff.

Got to meet Dick Cheney a couple of times.

Always very, very nice to me. Got to become friends with

Donald Rumsfeld. And towards the end of his tenure in the vice president's mansion, which is at

...