Asked in a C-Span interview if he could envision any circumstances under which he would step aside, Mr. Cheney replied: "Well, no, I can't.
In a C-Span interview this week, Kevin J. Martin, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, put the odds of a new deadline at 50-50.
The scene in Nashua was a "veritable circus tent of Republican candidates", said Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, in a C-Span interview.
Last fall, he was hospitalized twice, once after falling and hitting his head outside the Dakota Wesleyan library before a scheduled C-Span interview, and another time for fatigue after completing a lecture tour.
"I was a Civil War historian, and in 1964 I got a telephone call from General Eisenhower, who asked if I would be interested in writing his biography," Ambrose said in a C-SPAN interview in 1994.
In a C-Span interview earlier this year, he spoke of the satisfaction that comes from finishing another section of the book, implying that the parts can stand as a complete work even if he can no longer add to them.
True, Mr. Wiencek, an independent scholar, has received the kind of attention most authors can only dream of: book excerpts on the covers of both Smithsonian and American History magazines, a C-Span interview at Monticello, almost universally glowing reviews from nonspecialists.
"I didn't really want to write this book," he explained during a July 2005 C-SPAN interview.
In a later C-SPAN interview, he said that he came to see Washington as "a man of many moods, of many passions, of fiery opinions.
If Congress doesn't approve more spending, agency officials will have to divert money from programs that speed up cross-border trade and cargo, Customs and Border Protection chief Gil Kerlikowske said in a C-SPAN interview.
There are so few opportunities where you're able to just engage your colleagues without suits on and debating," Democratic Representative Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania said in a C-SPAN interview before the showdown.
