
Washington Is A Mess
The Dispatch Podcast
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Bush's Promise to Get to the Bottom of What's Going On
In 2000, three days after George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney to be his running mate, they were doing an event in Springdale, Arkansas. UFO enthusiast named Charles Hopper came up to Bush and said, half the country thinks UFOs are real. Would you finally tell us what the hell is going on? And Bush says it'll be the first thing he will do. So this is all like a big joke, right? But in the UFO community, they take Bush literally. They think that now Cheney has been giving the assignment to go and look at this thing.
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