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Hail to the chief

Dick Cheney's mission to expand -- or 'restore' --the powers of the presidency

By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / November 26, 2006

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ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- In July 1987, then-Representative Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim. (Full article: 2608 words)

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