LA Weekly

“We go out when the dew is still on the grass, and then hunt until we shoot our limit. Then we pick a fine spot and have a wild game picnic lunch.”

-Tobin Armstrong, 2000

Tobin Armstrong is dead, but before that he was a ranching heir with international holdings who hosted many a White House gala on his 50,000-acre ranch. His grandaddy fought outlaws. His wife, Anne, best friend of Kay Bailey Hutchinson, was on the Haliburton board when it hired Cheney; his daughter, Katharine, who was out sitting in the SUV when the Vice President "peppered" his friend with shotgun pellets, once presided over Texas' commission on parks and wildlife -- appointed by then-Governor George W. Bush.

Tobin Armstrong, during the 2000 election campaign, claimed that Cheney was an excellent shot. "He doesn't claim the bird," he said. "He's not an 'I-got-him' type of fellow."

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