He received five military deferments to avoid the Vietnam draft, then spent thirty years in government positions overseeing military policy. Dick Cheney was Gerald Ford's chief of staff at 34, George H.W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, and George W. Bush's vice president, the most powerful holder of that office in American history. He was the primary architect of the post-9/11 policies — the Iraq War, enhanced interrogation, warrantless surveillance. He shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face while quail hunting in 2006 and didn't apologize for eleven days.
January 30, 1941
85 years ago
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