In My Time, by Vice President Dick Cheney: on Drugs

Dick Cheney: Two DUI arrests, in 1962 & 1963

[Later,] Rumsfeld called me into his office and asked if it was true I had been arrested twice. I said I had. He asked if I had put the arrests on the original form. I said I had. Rumsfled studied the form closely; "Ok, that's good enough for me."

Five days before the 2000 election, we learned a story was breaking that in 1976, Bush had been arrested for DUI. I was sure the news of the governor's DUI would bring up stories of my own DUIs from nearly 40 years earlier, but that didn't happen because they had already been written about. They were old news. B ut this Bush story, even though it was 24 years old, was now completely new. The late revelation hurt us.