TIME Preview: New 'Split' Between Bush and Cheney on Diplomacy

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NEW YORK The next issue of Time magazine, due out Friday, will cause ripples due to its Obama cover story, which ponders whether he is an agent of change in the race for the White House -- or is being changed by it. But a shorter article by its White House correspondent Massimo Calabresi should also get traction.

Called, "The Diplomacy Split Between President Bush and Vice President Cheney," it reveals "the split that has opened up between (President) Bush and his hard-line Veep."

In the past two years, Bush has engaged in more open diplomacy, “sometimes directly overruling Cheney and his allies in the process.” A senior administration official reports that the President has increasingly overridden Cheney, and offers this new view of the relationship: “There’s an almost temperamental or dispositional question here. You see it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The President said, ‘I understand there are risks, but I think that this is a shot worth taking.’ The Vice President would probably emphasize the risks more, and I think that’s just the person he is.”