Bush transfers power to Cheney during colon test
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President George W. Bush temporarily handed his powers to Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday morning while he was sedated for a routine colon cancer test at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., the White House said.
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Vice President Dick Cheney is assuming the powers of the presidency for the second time in five years while President Bush undergoes a medical procedure.
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Doctors found and removed five polyps during a colon cancer screening for President Bush.
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Vice President Dick Cheney went to the hospital yesterday after experiencing shortness of breath. The visit, aides said, was a precaution, given his history of heart problems.
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President Bush shifted his stance today on how much power a new national intelligence director should have.
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The vice president will take over for several hours while President Bush undergoes anesthesia during routine screening for colon cancer.
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The US vice president, Dick Cheney, has left hospital where he was taken for precautionary tests after becoming short of breath. Mr Cheney, who is 62, was admitted to the hospital in Washington on Friday night.
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Vice President Cheney will assume the presidency on an acting basis today when President Bush undergoes general anesthesia for a routine colon examination, the White House said yesterday.
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Like the man behind the curtain working the levers in the "Wizard of Oz," Dick Cheney has been called the real power in President Bush's administration, perhaps the strongest vice president in U.S. history.
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THE SECOND TERM: Since Vice President Dick Cheney is no longer trying to help President Bush get re-elected, he has more time to represent the president overseas. He went to Afghanistan last month and attended a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz this week.
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Doctors removed five small growths from President Bush 's colon Saturday after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment.
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The tests are back and an aide to US Vice President Dick Cheney says &#39;they&#39;re fine.&#39;. Cheney spent three hours in hospital Saturday after he had been complaining of shortness of breath.
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TODAY   {vbar}    Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in U.S. history,
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Vice President Dick Cheney, who has  a history of heart attacks, went to a Washington hospital on  Saturday after experiencing shortness of breath but later left  for home and said he was fine.
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Some changes will depend on whether key players in Bush's first-term team are replaced, but the direction would still be set by Bush and Vice President Cheney, a highly influential figure on foreign policy.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that if elected she would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have assumed since taking office.
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NEW YORK Sept. 2, 2004 - As President Bush prepared to accept the Republican nomination for a second term, Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed his boss as a decisive commander in chief.