Dick Cheney became the youngest White House Chief of Staff
in history, at age 34.
You can email Dick Cheney at vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Dick
Cheney's hobbies are mostly outdoors-related, including
backpacking,
bicycling, camping, fishing, horseback riding, jogging and
river-rafting.
Dick
Cheney is a Methodist.
After
suffering a heart attack during his first campaign for Congress,
he organized a mock group of supporters, "Cardiacs for Cheney."
Dick
and Lynne Cheney co-authored a 1983 book about the
history of the House of Representative entitled, "Kings
of the Hill."
Dick
Cheney often jokes that if Lynne had not wed him, she would
have
married someone else who now would be running for vice president.
Early
in his professional life, Dick Cheney was a cook on
Union Pacific Railroad and a fudge stirrer in candy factory.
When
Richard Bruce Cheney was a student at Natrona County High
School in Casper, Wyo., he was a solid football player,
senior-class president and an above-average student. Cheney's
football coach remembers the young man as a locker-room
leader, though not the rah-rah, attention-grabbing type.
(http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/poycheney4.html)
Iin
high school (where she met Dick Cheney)
Lynne Cheney was elected Mustang Queen.
Lynne
Cheney's maiden name is Lynne Vincent.
In
high school, future-Mrs. Cheney, Lynne
Vincent was a state-champion baton twirler.
In her routines, she would set both ends
of a baton on fire and
throw it in the air while her boyfriend (Dick Cheney) stood
off to the
side holding a coffee can filled with water. When Lynne
was finished,
she would pass her flaming baton to Cheney, who, while the
audience
applauded and Lynne curtsied, would quietly douse the fires
by sticking each end of the baton in the coffee can.
(http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/poycheney4.html)
Years
ago, when a group of House members visiting the Soviet Union
amused themselves by taking a do-it-yourself psychoanalytic
test, Dick
Cheney added up his score and discovered that the one profession
to which he was particularly well suited was funeral director.
(http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/poycheney4.html)
For
the past two years, Dick Cheney and Lynne have held periodic
dinner parties—an attendee calls them "salons"—featuring
big thinkers on topics ranging from American political history
(David McCullough) to Islam's relationship with the West
(Bernard Lewis).
(http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2002/poycheney4.html)
On
a heart-healthy kick in 2000, Dick Cheney started drinking
skim-milk lattes from Starbucks. Since
his last heart attack, Dick Cheney's been eating a lot of
chicken and fish. ("My wife is in charge of my food supply,"
he says.)
FACTS ABOUT VICE PRESIDENCY:
The
song that is played by the US Marine Band for the
Vice President after he is sworn into office is "Hail Columbia."
The
Vice President lives in the Old Naval Observatory. The
first Vice President to live in the Naval Observatory
was Walter Mondale in 1977. Dick
Cheney is the first Vice Presidential nominee, and Vice
President, to have served as both Chief of Staff (Ford
administration) and Secretary of Defense (Bush administration).
