The New York Times has an article this morning discussing Cheney's place in history and predicting that historians will show a keen, and unprecedented, interest in studying Cheney's records.
Historians typically pay scant attention to vice presidents, unless they become president. Mr. Cheney, though, is an exception. The historian Robert Dallek, who has written about presidents including Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, predicts scholars will "be racing for vice-presidential records in a way that we’ve never seen before" to answer questions raised by the Libby trial.
I'm curious about what exactly might be found among these vice-presidential records that "scholars will be racing for." I have some ideas, and I'm sure you may have some too. Follow me for a poll...
The importance that historians are already attaching to Cheney's records suggests that Cheney will certainly deserve his own wing of the Bush Presidential Library at SMU (assuming that it ends up being rammed down the faculty's throat, as expected).
Here's my poll question for the day: If you were to stroll into the Cheney wing of the library and snatch a volume at random from the shelf, what do you think you'd be most likely to find? Please vote below, or make suggestions in the comments.