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Where the Rumsfelds Retreat, The Cheneys Soon Could Follow

By Dan Morse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 5, 2005; Page B01

ST. MICHAELS, Md. -- They've grown used to having a secretary of defense in their midst -- the way his weekend estate is tucked behind a bend in the road, how he takes casual walks tailed by dark SUVs. Now, residents of this Eastern Shore retreat are preparing for someone even bigger to buy a house down the road: the vice president.

"I'd heard it was going to close either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week," Carroll Hurley, a funeral home owner, said Saturday, seated with his breakfast gang at the Carpenter Street saloon and restaurant.

Whether it's true -- that Dick and Lynne Cheney are buying an estate here -- could not be confirmed. Those closest to the deal -- Cheney's office, the purported sellers, the listing agent -- aren't talking. Hurley admits he's not certain: "All I have is hearsay. It wouldn't stand up in court."

Still, a nosy visit here leaves a person with one of two possibilities: Either the Cheneys are coming or a lot of people have bad information. Police Chief Ed Henry -- who breakfasted along with Hurley -- even referred to the lot in question as "Cheney's house."

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White House Letter: Two hawks a-nesting, under a no-flight zone
By Elisabeth Bumiller International Herald Tribune

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2005
ST. MICHAELS, Maryland There are motorcades of black SUVs on Talbot Street, buzzing Chinooks overhead and a no-flight zone that has private pilots in an uproar. But Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have found peace and quiet in their new weekend hawks' nests, even if their presence in this Chesapeake Bay retreat causes a racket in town.

"It gives you something to talk about," said Norm Tuer, a project manager for one of the area's busy construction companies. "Good for real estate values, too."

As anybody would tell you last week at the Carpenter Street Saloon, St. Michaels' unofficial town hall, two years ago Rumsfeld paid $1.5 million for Mount Misery, a former bed and breakfast with a checkered past. (The 19th-century red-brick house on 4.5 waterfront acres, or 1.8 hectares, was built by Edward Covey, a notorious breaker of rebellious slaves who beat the abolitionist Frederick Douglass on and off there in 1834.)

Cheney, Rumsfeld's friend of three decades, followed this autumn with his own weekend purchase, Ballintober, a sprawling $2.6 million Cape Cod on nine waterfront acres just minutes from the defense secretary. Cheney's house, built in the 1930s, has formal gardens, a wisteria arbor and a 150-foot, or 45-meter, dock reaching out into San Domingo Creek, an inlet of the bay.

Both places are a few miles from town in the Church Neck area of big houses with merry names (The Tuck Box, Baybury Bank Farm), and just down the road from Southwind, the onetime home of James Michener, who chronicled the area in his novel "Chesapeake."

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Right on the Water
The Only Retreat for Cheney and Rumsfeld: St. Michaels

By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 2, 2006; C01

ST. MICHAELS, Md. -- It's tempting to seek deeper meaning and clues to character in the way Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld kick back in this lovely Eastern Shore community, where both have bought expensive waterfront estates.

Cheney shops for shotgun shells, Rumsfeld buys ice cream.

Rumsfeld's retreat -- a former bed and breakfast built in 1804, for which he paid $1.5 million six months after the invasion of Iraq -- is called Mount Misery. After he took title, two cannonballs were found on the four-acre property: weapons of mass destruction! -- circa 1812.

Cheney's place, named Ballintober after a previous owner's Irish ancestral home, was originally listed for $3.1 million, but the veep drove a hard bargain and paid $2.7 million in September. Among such amenities as a wisteria arbor and swimming pool on nine acres, Ballintober has radiant heat beneath the kitchen and living room floors, especially nice if the vice president pads around in his socks.

Cheney travels through town in brusque black-SUV convoys, emerging with wife Lynne to eat in the best restaurants. Rumsfeld has been spotted driving a Volkswagen Jetta and pumping his own gas. He goes on shopping missions with wife Joyce, lugging antique knickknacks in her wake.