Washington, Sept 19: Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has said that former President George W. Bush's comment on his memoir was "appropriate under the circumstances."

Bush had earlier said that he was glad that members of his "family" are writing about their experiences working for the Bush administration, and offered that "objective historians" would make their own conclusions about what happened in the eight years he was in power.

Cheney applauded Bush's statement.

"Well, I thought (that comment) was appropriate under the circumstances," CBS News quoted Cheney, as saying.

"I said some very nice things about President Bush because I thought he was an effective president. I thought he was very good in terms of making very bold, very tough decisions. And so I was satisfied with the response," he added.

Cheney said he has not spoken to Bush since "In My Time" was released in late August, though the two did speak just prior, when Cheney provided an advance copy to the former president.

Cheney also defended his belief that his former aide Scooter Libby should have been pardoned by Bush.

"I argued strenuously on Scooter''s behalf. I really thought he got bum deal that he should not have been indicted," Cheney said, though he declined to repeat his allegation from the book that Bush did not have the "courage" to pardon Libby. Libby, who was Cheney''s chief of staff, was convicted in 2007 of lying and obstructing a leak investigation into the outing of CIA spy Valerie Plame in 2003.

Former Bush administration officials like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell had earlier slammed the book, with Powell believing Cheney "overshot the runway" in the book, and Rice blasting Cheney''s "attack on her integrity". (ANI)