Dick Cheney was not president, New York Times clarifies in correction

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Dick Cheney was not president, New York Times clarifies in correction

byJon Terbush

January 8, 2015

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney was in fact the vice president, not the president, says The New York Times in a spit-take-inducing correction.

The correction appears on a Tuesday Jonathan Weisman story about Cheney advising the GOP on how to align itself against President Obama's foreign policy.