Obama Makes Get-Well Call to Cheney After Heart Attack

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The two men are hardly chummy-chummy, but President Obama phoned Dick Cheney at his home Wednesday after the former vice president suffered what an aide called a mild heart attack earlier in the week.

Cheney spent two days at George Washington University Hospital, recovering from what was his fifth heart attack.

The New York Times, reporting the call, offered no details of the conversation. But Cheney has emerged as a combative critic of Obama and his administration, especially in its handling of national security issues.

At a convention of conservatives a week ago, he predicted, to lusty cheers, that Obama would be a one-term president.

But all of that was apparently put aside -- at least temporarily -- this week. Vice President Joe Biden also called his predecessor and Cheney got a personal visit from former President George W. Bush.

Filed Under: Bush Administration, Democrats, Republicans, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Terror, Obama Administration, National Security, Conservatives

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