Dick Cheney

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'''Richard Bruce''' "Dick" '''Cheney (January 30, 1941 - present)''' serves as the Vice President of the United States, first elected in 2000 along with President [[George W. Bush]]. Cheney was re-elected along with President Bush in 2004.

== Life and Family ==
Richard "Dick" Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska [http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/] to [[Marjorie Cheney]] and [[Richard H. Cheney]], a soil conservation agent for the [[United States Department of Agriculture]].[http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/vicepresident/] He attended what was then called [[College View Elementary School]] in Lincoln until his family moved to [[Casper, Wyoming]]. In Casper, Cheney attended [[Natrona County High School]] [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060527-4.html] where he was the captain of the football team, and senior class president.[http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/vicepresident/] He has both a BA and an MA in Political Science from the University of Wyoming [http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/]. He married his high school sweetheart[http://www.case.edu/vpdebate/content/presskit/candidates_bios.pdf] [[Lynne Cheney|Lynne Vincent]] in 1964. They have two daughters; Elizabeth and Mary.

On May 23, 2007, Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney welcomed their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney. Samuel is the son of Mary Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe.

== Political Career ==
Richard Cheney assumed his first political post as an assistant to Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles in the early 1960s. at the age of 28 when he became an intern near the beginning of the [[Richard Nixon]] administration. He quickly came to the attention of [[Donald Rumsfeld]], then directing the Office of Economic Opportunity, and was promoted to a paid position in 1971. When [[Watergate]] forced Nixon's resignation in 1973, Cheney became vice president of an investment firm for a year, but Rumsfeld convinced [[Gerald Ford]] upon the latter's accession to the presidency that Cheney was indispensible, and he was recalled to public service. Eventually Cheney replaced Rumsfeld as [[Chief of Staff]] to Ford as Rumsfeld was promoted to [[Secretary of Defense]].

[[Image:Cheney3.jpg‎|left|thumb|150px|Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Mrs. Lynne Cheney welcomed their fifth grandchild, 2006]]Upon hearing that Cheney had been chosen by Bush as his running mate, [[Paula Jones]] who was notable in some of the early [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] scandals sued to disqualify them from receiving the electoral votes of [[Texas]]. Her theory was that under the [[12th Amendment]] to the [[U. S. Constitution]], no state may give its electoral vote to a Presidential ticket both of whose members are from that state. [[Republican]] lawyers argued that Cheney's ties to [[Wyoming]] were more significant than those to Texas, which had effectively been dissolved as soon as Lynne carried out Richard's instructions to sell their house there. This argument prevailed in Federal district court, and Jones did not appeal.

Lillian Ross, in a the July 9th, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, wrote, "He is pathologically (but purposefully) secretive; treacherous toward colleagues; coldly manipulative of the callow, lazy, and ignorant President he serves; contemptuous of public opinion; and dismissive not only of international law (a fairly standard attitude for conservatives of his stripe) but also of the very idea that the Constitution and laws of the United States, including laws signed by his nominal superior, can be construed to limit the power of the executive to take any action that can plausibly be classified as part of the an endless, endlessly expandable "war on terror." "

== Health Issues: ==
In March 2007 Mr. Cheney had surgery to remove a blood clot in his leg, the result of extended periods of sitting while airborne.

==Hunting accident==
On February 11, 2006, Mr. Cheney shot his hunting partner, [[Harry Whittington]], in the face after Whittington moved into his "blind spot". [http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/17/cheney/]

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