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On 9/11 and after, Dick Cheney shaped the American response to terrorism

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By Tyler Bartlam,

Scott Detrow, Sarah Handel

Published November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM EST

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Garrett Graff, author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 about former Vice President Dick Cheney's role that day, and thereafter.

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