Richard Bruce Cheney

In October 2008, Joseph Biden said that Dick Cheney is the most dangerous vice president in the history of the United States of America. He called on Barack Obama to return the water torture, and critics called him Darth Vader. As a politician, Cheney has come a long way from being a member of the Nixon administration to the 46th Vice President of the United States.

Richard Bruce (Dick) Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 30, 1941. The politician has English, Welsh, Irish and French roots. Cheney's great-grandfather, at the age of 8, came to the United States from England in the 17th century. Another ancestor, a Huguenot, who fled first from France to Great Britain and then to Maryland, makes the politician related to Harry Truman and Barack Obama.

Besides Dick, the family had two more children. Father Richard Herbert Cheney worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, and mother Marjorie Lorraine, née Dickie, was a softball star in the 1930s. The future politician attended Calvert Elementary School until the family left the "corn state" and moved to Casper, the second largest city in Wyoming. He continued his further education there at the Natron County School.

After school, the young man began his studies at Yale University, but in his youth, Dick often had learning problems, and he was expelled from the 2nd year. Cheney eventually graduated from the University of Wyoming with a BA in Political Science. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Richard entered his doctorate, but did not complete it.

In November 1962, Dick was arrested and subsequently convicted of drunk driving. A year later, the situation repeated itself. Cheney says his trouble with the police made him wonder what he was doing with his life.

During the Vietnam War, Cheney was of draft age and could go to the front, but due to his marriage and the birth of daughters, he received 5 deferrals. In January 1967, the man turned 26, and, according to the law, he was no longer subject to conscription. Dick later admitted that, among other things, he needed deferrals to complete his education: he did not study in a bachelor's degree for 4 years, but 6 years due to poor academic performance and the need to combine study with work.

Dick Cheney discovered his political biography in 1969 when he became an intern with Congressman William Steiger during the presidency of Richard Nixon. From that time to 1976, the politician changed several positions in the White House, including deputy assistant to the president.

When Donald Rumsfeld, with whom Cheney began work, became Secretary of Defense, the politician was appointed the White House chief of staff. In 1976, a man led Ford's presidential campaign. Two years later, in 1978, Dick was elected to represent Wyoming in the US House of Representatives, succeeding Teno Roncalio, and was subsequently re-elected 5 times in a row until 1989.

During this period, he voted against the creation of the US Department of Education as a separate structure, considering it economically inexpedient. Dick Cheney also voted against Head Start, a program that helps children from families with low incomes. However, in 2000 he changed his mind.

In 1983, the politician changed his mind about the holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., which he was against in 1978. In 1987, Cheney became chairman of the Republican Conference in the House of Representatives, and on March 20, the man was named US Secretary of Defense. This happened after the US Senate rejected the candidacy of John Bauer, who did not please politicians with his bad habits and support for the women's abortion rights movement.

Under his leadership, operations such as the Iraqi Desert Storm and Just Cause were carried out in Panama. In 1991, President George W. Bush awarded Cheney the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a little later, the man was awarded the US Senator John Heinz Award for Outstanding Public Service. The politician himself believes that during his work at the Pentagon, he was most useful to the country.

During his tenure, Dick Cheney cut the Ministry's budget and the number of military personnel, since during the Cold War policy, Reagan significantly increased the size of the army. A major achievement of the US Department of Defense under Cheney's leadership was the creation of military bases in Saudi Arabia. This was the reason for the success of the Gulf War.

After leaving office, Dick left the White House for a while and was mainly engaged in business, becoming chairman of the board of directors of the Halliburton oil field company. But in 2000, George W. Bush called Cheney into his campaign, and he agreed. On January 20, Bush took office as US President and Cheney as Vice President.

After the September 11 tragedy, the politician played a large role in justifying the resumption of hostilities against Iraq - his regular public statements that the enemy state has weapons of mass destruction had an effect. Cheney argued that Saddam Hussein had links to al-Qaeda, although classified materials were published on September 21, 2001, according to which intelligence did not find any confirmation of this connection.

For the second time, Dick Cheney held the post until 2009. Later in an interview, the vice president noted that during this time, their relationship with Bush Jr. deteriorated significantly.

At the age of 14, Richard fell in love with Lynn Vincent, and in 1964 the girl became his wife. The couple had children, two daughters - Elizabeth and Mary. Cheney is a member of the United Methodist Church.

In his views, Dick is a neoconservative. He strongly believes in the dominance of the United States in the world, opposes abortion, and supports American gun ownership. Homosexual marriages, of course, also never fell into the realm of what Cheney looked at positively.

However, his youngest daughter Mary is an openly lesbian who in 2012 legalized a relationship with Heather Poe, her partner since 1992. The woman has two children. In her autobiographical book, Now It's My Turn, Mary said that when she opened up to her parents, her father took it calmly and said that he loved her and wanted her to be happy.

When in 2004, during a debate, Cheney pointed out the contradiction of his views to what happens in his personal life, the politician commented on this with the phrase:

In February 2006, an unpleasant story happened to the former vice president. While hunting on a Texas ranch, a man accidentally shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face. When the man was looking for a shot bird in the grass, Cheney managed not to notice him, despite the orange hunting vest. Fortunately, the injury was not serious and did not cause significant harm to Whittington's health.

In 2011, the politician published his memoirs "In My Time", and in 2015 - the book "An Exceptional Country: Why the World Needs a Strong America." Both books are co-authored with Elizabeth, Cheney's eldest daughter.

Dick's figure has been repeatedly played in the animated series Family Guy. In the first episode with Cheney, the drawn vice president in Beach Tan with Steve Zissou greeted Walmart's visitor with foul language.

Then Cheney was the hero of the "Boys Cry" series, where he protested against Mary's sexual orientation, and then in the episode "Petergeist" he shot Peter, allegedly mistaking him for a deer. Dick's next appearance in Family Guy was in 2010's Broadcast Excellence, where he was met by Brian, the family's dog.

Since 1978, the politician has suffered 5 heart attacks. As a result, he had to undergo several operations, the last of which was a heart transplant in 2012.

Now Dick Cheney does not hold a position in the White House, but continues to be a media person and speak out with criticism of current politicians.

Hollywood in 2018 filmed the biopic "Prompter" about the former vice president, starring Christian Bale. Immediately after the announcement of the filming, the tape was intensively discussed on the Web by both people interested in Cheney and the actor's fans. In particular, attention was drawn to the fact that, judging by the photo from the set, Bale had to gain a lot of weight for the film.

1991 - Presidential Medal of Freedom

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