At the Gridiron Club dinner earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden revealed the secret spot where Dick Cheney and his top aides were taken immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to Newsweek.
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The Democrat said that a young naval officer who was giving him a tour of the Naval Observatory in Washington, which is Biden's new home and where Cheney lived for eight years, showed him the bunker-like room behind what Newsweek describes as being "a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock."
During the event, Biden apparently implied to the guests around him that his predecessor's isolation was a factor in some of the controversial policies that followed, Newsweek reported.
Go to Newsweek to read more about the hideaway and click through the gallery, below, to read about some verbal gaffes that have made headlines.
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Notable Blunders
During a trip to Moscow, Vice President Joe Biden gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal in which he said Russia's economic problems are likely to make the Kremlin more willing to cooperate with the U.S. on a host of issues. "We vastly underestimate the hand that we hold," he said. The quote made front-page headlines in Moscow Monday and angered Russian lawmakers.
Shakh Aivazov, AP
Shakh Aivazov, AP
