Bath, England COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality? Maybe there is, and we owe it to Fintan O'Toole. That trenchant Irish commentator is a biographer and theater critic, and...
WASHINGTON I WAS intrigued to learn that the president and I have the same favorite new TV series: Showtime's spectacular ''Homeland,'' set right here in the capital. The season finale is tonight, and finales of addictive shows can be tricky and disappointing. However it ends, though, they should dispense with the Best-Actors-in-a-Drama contest and...
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Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (født 30. januar 1941 i Lincoln, Nebraska), Medlem af Det Republikanske Parti, var den 46. vicepræsident i USA, i perioden fra 20. januar 2001 til 20. januar 2009, i perioden med George W. Bush som præsident. Tidligere forsvarsminister fra marts 1989 til januar 1993 udnævnt af præsident George H.W. Bush. Kongresmedlem fra Wyoming fra 1979 til 1989.
Dick Cheney er gift med forfatteren Lynne Cheney.
Efter High School startede Cheney på Yale University men droppede ud efter nogle år, i stedet fik han en kandidatgrad i statskundskab fra University of Wyoming i 1966. Han forsøgte herefter at få en doktorgrad fra University of Wisconsin, men stoppede inden han var færdig for at hellige sig politik.
Cheney arbejde fra 1969 i Det Hvide Hus under præsident Richard Nixon hvor han hurtigt steg i graderne og han endte som stabschef for præsident Gerald Ford, den hidtil yngste på den post, og han var kampagneleder for Fords valgkamp i 1976. Fold ud