Bill Clinton was all smiles this morning on the Sunday-show circuit, chuckling about Dick Cheney’s talk of his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a potential presidential contender next year. “I’m always gratified whenever anyone says anything nice about her,” he said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “And I very much agree that she’s done a good job. But I also have a high regard for Vice President Cheney’s political skills, and I think one of those great skills is sowing discord among the opposition. So I think he’s right that she’s done a heck of a job. But she is a member of this administration, and committed to doing it.”

Cheney, he chuckled, knew that such a remark “might cause a little trouble,” but as the former veep promotes his new memoir, Clinton doesn’t want to engage in anything more than a friendly spar. “I admire that he’s still out there hitting the ball,” he said.