It was around p. Everyone immediately jumped into action to get Whittington medical care. The 50,acre Armstrong Ranch in Kenedy County is a popular destination among the movers and shakers in the Republican Party. Armstrong and her husband Tobin, along with their five adult children, hosted numerous hunting parties for politicians including presidents George H. Bush and George W.
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Cheney Shoots Man In Hunting Accident - CBS News
Frank James. Harry Whittington on his hospital release, February Harry Whittington, the man former Vice President Dick Cheney peppered with birdshot in that hunting accident, didn't exactly tell the Washington Post that Cheney never apologized for nearly killing him. But the Austin, Texas lawyer and octogenarian did nothing to dissuade Paul Farhi, the WaPo reporter, from concluding that Cheney, indeed, didn't apologize after shooting him in an accident that left Whittington more seriously wounded than the initial reports and the jokes about the infamous incident suggested. Despite his scars, Whittington bears no ill will toward Cheney. He calls him "a very capable and honorable man" and adds, "He's said some very kind things to me.
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A single bird flew up, around and behind Cheney in the direction of Whittington. Cheney shot at the bird and hit Whittington. He apologized.
Of all the destruction waged by Dick Cheney during his eight-year run of terror in the White House, one incident stands out as the oddest: On February 11, , Cheney shot a hunting partner in the face, nearly killing him. When Harry M. Whittington, a prominent attorney in Austin, arrived at Armstrong Ranch in the very southeastern tip of Texas, he had a deep connection not to Cheney, but instead to a few other notorious Republicans of the George W. Bush era. But a Washington Post profile of Whittington dispelled the notion that Whittington and Cheney were friends:.