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CORRECTION: Our story "Cheney Family Values" reported that Liz Cheney sent e-mail messages from inside the National Cathedral during President Ronald Reagan's funeral. In fact, she sent the messages from just outside the Capitol Rotunda immediately before a separate service for Reagan held there. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.
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Byline: Tamara Lipper and Evan Thomas (With Rebecca Sinderbrand and Kathryn Williams)
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Around Bush-Cheney headquarters, they are known, respectfully but also with a certain amount of eye-rolling, as The Family. Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, and daughters Liz and Mary can be intense, insular and prickly as they protect their man, his reputation and his place on the GOP ticket. For White House and campaign staffers, the Cheney family can be dangerous to cross and easy to disappoint. Since taking office, Cheney is on his fourth press secretary, and all of them have appeared to be afraid of even trying to pass on tough or annoying questions from reporters. Prospective Cheney staffers are expected to be "part of The Family." The connotation is not quite the Sopranos, but it's not about baking cookies, either.
The Family has been feeling a little besieged lately. Last week The New York Times ran a front-page story relating a plan--characterized by the paper as "ingenious as it is far-fetched" to dump Cheney under the guise of bringing on a new doctor who would pronounce the veep as unfit for office. The paper both floated the rumor and quickly knocked it down, prominently quoting a Bush campaign aide as saying, "I don't know where they get all these conspiracy theories. It's inside-the-Beltway coffee talk, is all it is." Still, the story's appearance on page one of the paper of record was further evidence, if any were needed, that the Washington gossip...
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