Through the marvel of television - and the remote button - a debate of sorts was available on last Sunday morning's interview shows between the departing vice president and the man soon to succeed him. 

On the Fox News show, Dick Cheney spent most of an hour defending his eight-year tenure, in which he has been seen as such an influential incumbent that he has often been cast as the real power behind President Bush. 

Then, on the next hour on ABC News' "This Week," Vice President-elect Joe Biden repeated earlier attacks on Cheney's tenure, not backing off his campaign characterization of him as possibly "the most dangerous" man ever to hold the office. 

Biden based much of his allegation on what he said was Cheney's advocacy of the "unitary executive" theory - essentially that, especially in time of war, the president has virtually unlimited constitutional power as "commander in chief." 

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