For a New York Times article on December 22, 2008, “Vice President [Dick] Cheney told one reporter that ‘If you think about what Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War, what F.D.R. did during World War II. They went far beyond anything we’ve done in a global war on terror. But we have exercised, I think, the legitimate authority of the president under Article II of the Constitution as commander in chief in order to put in place policies and programs that have successfully defended the nation.’ “
– Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 36