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I think, for just a moment, Dick Cheney forgot who he was. He sounded less like Dick Cheney, unique creature extraordinaire, and more like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, poor rememberer extraordinaire. “I don’t recall” was Cheney’s Gonzales-esque stock answer for at two questions Larry King asked him in a rare interview today. King described his interview on the air with CNN’s Kyra Phillips today:

KING: I asked the vice president about that and the story that he was the one that asked him to go, and he said he had no recollection. So, I then said, wouldn’t that be something you would recollect? And he said he stuck by that he had no recollection of asking him to go. He did not want to deal with specifics, which tells me they’re looking at trouble. If you don’t want to deal with specifics, if you don’t want to say, well, he said this and he didn’t mean that, I think you’re looking at trouble and you’re looking the other way if you’re denying it.

PHILLIPS: Wow, it’s one of those infamous lines, right, Larry? “I do not recall” or “I don’t have a recollection.”

KING: How could you not recall? You two guys, you go over to that guy in the hospital bed and you tell him to sign this. Did you say that? “I don’t recall.”

More on the question of whether or not Cheney ordered Gonzales to visit Ashcroft in the hospital here.

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