Former President George W. Bush dismissed any notion of a rift that may have developed with former Vice President Cheney over Bush's refusal to pardon Scooter Libby in a CNN interview Wednesday evening:
JOHN KING: [...] At the end of the presidency there was strain with your vice president over some policy disagreements in the second term, over the Scooter Libby pardon decision. Was that strained?
GEORGE W. BUSH: No, it was never strained. I think that's the mythology that's -- that we've escaped. In other words, there's a mythology in Washington, there's kind of a --
JOHN KING: He writes in his book that things were tense.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Not really. They were on Scooter Libby, he didn't agree with that decision. I don't -- I -- people ought to look at the total picture. And we were friends then and we're friends now.
