Cheney Says He Had Secret Resignation Letter While in Office
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney secretly put a signed resignation letter in a safe shortly after taking office, in part because of concerns about his health, according to excerpts from an NBC News interview.
Cheney, 70, who suffered four heart attacks before becoming President George W. Bush’s vice president, was worried about the possibility “that I might have a heart attack or a stroke that would be incapacitating,” he said in the interview. “There is no mechanism for getting rid of a vice president who can’t function.”