For three it would be one of the last times.
Mr. Merrill's call to Vice President Dick Cheney concerned a couple of promising young men from the bank he wanted the vice president to meet. Mr. Cheney invited them to lunch in the West Wing.
"I fed them lunch in my office," Mr. Cheney said. "He wanted to plug them in."
It was the kind of generosity he had grown accustomed to in 20 years of knowing Mr. Merrill, Mr. Cheney...
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