Dick Cheney v. Aaron Burr : Risky Business

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w070625&s=rauchway062707

"Last week marked the bicentennial of the last time Americans thought a vice president posed a constitutional threat to the United States (no, the merely peculative Spiro Agnew does not count): On June 24, 1807, a grand jury returned an indictment for treason against Aaron Burr, who had till 1805 served as vice president under Thomas Jefferson. Current Vice President Dick Cheney's evident opinion, reported last week, that his office need not obey laws applying to the executive branch because the vice president presides over the Senate, reminds us that more than this coincidence of dates unites him with his predecessor. Burr held Cheney-like views of the relation between business and public life, and he had a gift for alerting his fellow Americans to constitutional anomalies.

"Burr exhibited little patience with or even interest in propriety. As he himself best put it, public office served him for "fun and honor & profit," all together. Which led him, in a most Cheney-like fashion, to embark on ambitious projects, believing beyond hope that his opposition were in their last throes."

[AndyTiedye]

1. Aaron Burr was also the Last Vice President Who Shot Someone

[Spinzonner]

2. And, both shot people