American Voices

Dick Cheney's Heart

March 14, 2001 | ISSUE 37•09

Last week, vice-president Dick Cheney, a four-time heart-attack victim, underwent angioplasty surgery. What do you think about his heart problems?

  • Wait a second: I thought Bush was the one with the heart, and Cheney was the one with the brains.

    Adrienne Knox
    Student

  • Dick Cheney's heart may be a mass of marbleized fat and its arteries choked with bacon rind, but to me, it's made of one thing: pure gold.

    Benjamin Evans
    Systems Analyst

  • If Cheney ever has a heart attack during a press conference, he should clutch his chest and shout, 'Elizabeth, I'm comin'!'

    Pete Powell
    Clerk

  • Cheney has failed to heed the cautionary words of Billy Joel, who warns that working too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack.

    Carolyn Hester
    Caterer

  • As a doctor holding a plastic, cross-sectioned model of a human heart, let me just say this: Think of the heart as a piston in a car engine...

    Marc Andersen
    Cardiologist

  • So Cheney went back to work a day after heart surgery? I gotta hand it to him–he practices what he preaches, healthcare-wise.

    Bud Lathrop
    Roofer

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