Cheney Travels With Biohazard Suit
That's one of the revelations about the vice president in a Vanity Fair profile by former N.Y. Times reporter Todd Purdham.
That’s one of the revelations about the vice president in a Vanity Fair profile by former N.Y. Times reporter Todd Purdham.
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… Purdum reports that Cheney travels with a chemical-biological suit at all times. When he gave his friend Robin West and his twin children a ride to the White House a couple of years ago, West commented on the fact that Cheney’s motorcade varied its daily path. “And he said, ‘Yeah, we take different routes so that “The Jackal” can’t get me,'” West tells Purdum. “And then there was this big duffel bag in the middle of the backseat, and I said, ‘What’s that? It’s not very roomy in here.’ And [Cheney] said, ‘No, because it’s a chemical-biological suit,’ and he looked at it and said, ‘Robin, there’s only one. You lose.'”
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