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Republican National Convention: V.P. Nominee-to-be 'a Conventional, Mainstream Republican'

Aired July 28, 2000 - 10:32 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We turn our attention, once again, to election 2000. The focus, of course, Philadelphia, where the Republican National Convention is set to begin on Monday.

My partner, Bill Hemmer, is at convention hall. Right now joins us from there.

Good morning, again, Bill.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Daryn, good morning again to you. Thank you.

Republicans, indeed, gathering here in Philadelphia, when they begin their convention at the Comcast First Union Center next week, it is all going to be happening actually right down there, just over my shoulder.

A bit of a note of optimism too to start this thing. The latest CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll shows Bush's advantage over Democratic rival Al Gore widening now to 11 points, 50 percent of likely voters questioned say they plan to vote for Bush at this point, 39 percent say they are for Gore.

The man Bush has chosen for his vice presidential running mate in for a big payday. After just under five years as CEO of Halliburton Corporation, in Dallas, Texas, Cheney entitled to a retirement package worth at least $2.1 million. Some folks may call that a golden parachute, but if Cheney is elected vice president, his salary will be $181,000, a bit of a pay cut, as he would say, more than $1 million less than his earnings at Halliburton last year.

For more on the V.P. nominee-to-be, we are joined by Bob Novak of CNN's "CAPITAL GANG" and "EVANS, NOVAK, HUNT & SHIELDS" is here live in Philly.

Nice to see you. Good morning to you.

ROBERT NOVAK, EVANS, NOVAK, HUNT & SHIELDS: Good morning, Bill.

HEMMER: Dick Cheney, for the past three days, has been hammered on his voting record, 10 years in the U.S. House, serving the state of Arizona. You have a lot of contact with him, almost on a daily basis. How is he reacting? or even holding up to that criticism? NOVAK: He doesn't mind it a bit. You see, they have been a great expose. They had found that Dick Cheney, from very careful investigation, is a Republican. And what his voting record was, 12, 16 years ago, was a conventional, mainstream, Republican voting record.

These kind of things, of course the media is keeping it alive, because there is not much else to talk about, but you are not going to hear much of the voting record in the future, and you are not going to hear much in this campaign about Dick Cheney, I would warn.

HEMMER: Just to follow that up, I believe the Bush camp, probably in their mind thought, when we pick Dick Cheney, they are going to focus on him as defense secretary, Gulf War, et cetera, chief of staff for Gerald Ford back in the mid-'70s. Were they ready for this attack, do you think? or did they catch them off guard in any way?

NOVAK: I don't think they take it seriously. Of course, their internal polling, and the public polling say that the public -- it has no affect on the public.

You remember, Bill, Bill Bradley, in the primary, talked about Al Gore's voting record in the Senate. Remember how much impact that had? I mean, that is a real media concept that somebody's voting record is going to make some difference.

I don't think you are going to hear much of Dick Cheney in this campaign, and that is going to suit the Republican's right. I have been through a couple of conventions where there was huge shocks on the selection of vice president, Spiro Agnew in 1968; Dan Quayle in 1988. The Republicans were just shaking. So they are very happy with Cheney.

HEMMER: Quickly, you say we are not going to hear a lot from him. But we will hear him speak in prime time next Wednesday night. No vice president has ever done that at a convention before.

In 1995, I think Dick Cheney was a part-time candidate for president at one time. You said he wrote his own speeches then. Will he write his own this time?

NOVAK: Certainly they hope not. I don't think they will let him because his speeches were really terrible. He is a very competent public servant and a good politician, but a politician who writes his own speeches had a fool for a speechwriter.

HEMMER: All right, and if Dick Cheney is watching, I am sure he will love to hear your comments. Bob Novak, thanks, stop by again, OK, in the next week,

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