Accidents happen, but rarely do they end with a victim apologizing to the person who, even unwittingly, committed the offending act.
But such was the case in 2006, when Dick Cheney, the sitting vice president of the United States, accompanied by members of the Secret Service, accidentally fired a shotgun blast into the face and torso of an acquaintance: Harry Whittington, then a prominent attorney in Austin, Texas, who was quail hunting with the veep. What followed was what passed for a weird news cycle in the aughts — a far cry from any scandal of the Trump era, but a punctuated moment of George W. Bush’s presidency.
