Former Vice President Dick Cheney was changed personally as was his view of the world by the September 11th terrorist attacks, he tells Lee Cowan in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD, to be broadcast today, August 30, 2015 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
Cheney was in Washington on the day of the attacks and was rushed to a secret White House bunker. "It was a remarkable day, a tragic day," Cheney tells Cowan, admitting the attacks changed him. "It was alleged by some, my friends, that 9/11 did change Cheney. That as Secretary of Defense under the first Bush administration, he was a warm, pleasant, loveable fellow and he became more of a hard rock afterwards," Cheney, 74, tells Cowan. "And I think that's probably true. It changed, well, it changed the way I looked at the world." In a wide-ranging interview, Cheney talks with Cowan about life inside the White House and out, his views on the Obama administration and his new book, "Exceptional," co-authored with his daughter Liz and published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS. Cheney discusses his criticism of President Obama's policies toward Iraq, the controversial nuclear deal with Iran and the spread of ISIS. "I think the spread of ISIS was the direct result of the vacuum that was created when the Obama Administration withdrew all of our forces from Iraq," Cheney says. "By the time we left office, Iraq was in good shape, Obama said as much."Videos