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they read the french enlightenment, they read david hume, which we never read in philosophy on moral and the basic moral of the scottish enlightenment, the french enlightenment and and other people, the romans is a it was we're just filled with. as joanna, my wife. i am. and and we're just we remember the classical virtue of stomach, temperance,ou justice and try to keep those passions under control. try to keep them underontrol and try to use your reason. and that's what madison■ says. madison says. we won't have that much a problem. there will bewill be factions ar this country, but it's big country and the factions will all be different in different places and time it take time to get these views across where can have an impact and the governments complicated put those three things together and you will have time for people to reflect and they in the government like they individually will be able to have reason in control. mm hmm. well, today means nothing or not much in time. zero in complexity, but it's more complex in different. and so can we find that substitute? can we find t

he actually had a pretty good sense of humor about it when his friend david hume kennerly once greeted him by saying, hi, --, have you been in blown away any small countries today? cheney didn't miss a beat, and he said, you know, that's one of the things i really like about this job. at one point, cheney even tried on a mask of darth vader. darth vader mass and his staff had bought for him. and they took a picture of it. and he later tried to put that his memoir until lynne cheney was smart enough to say, no, don't do that. but the reality is more subtle. no question that cheney was in some ways the most powerful vice president. that's a fair thing to say, but it sort of misunderstood and how he used his power, where he got it from. he knew washington. he knew its players. he knew how the place work. he seated his allies throughout government. but most importantly, he built a relationship with george w bush who empowered him to be an important vice president. bush gave cheney access to every meeting, every decision. you know, he involved cheney in every aspect of the presidency, in fa