We could have chased him out of the building by making him sit next to women.

She has enormous poise and self control, you kind of have to if you want to do a good job.

Cheney is on a very short list of people who really understands the job she did as FLOTUS, as Secretary, and even as Senator. For her part, she can do the same for his time at high levels of government. Not just secrets, but down to trivial stuff like amusing foibles of White House personnel. They're part of an exclusive club and have things in common with each other that realistically we'll never have with either of them.

Don't get me wrong, she's got some ideological common ground with us that I'm pretty sure she doesn't have with him, but I can certainly see how one could grow to put politics aside if that was what it took to enjoy the very rare conversations with people who can at least follow your thoughts about the most important years of your professional life.

Colleagues. Professional enough to not raise a speck of dust in a setting like this.

Maybe his heart isn’t working well...t’would be a pity.....

for Mr. Bigtime. She knows very few others would show up.

I would go "BOO" and hope for a heart attack.

how many purloined hearts he has stashed underneath that old man suit. I picture him hoarding hearts to use and toss aside.

but maybe the seating was D, R, D, R sort of like boy, girl, boy, girl...