biography
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Cheney, Dick
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popular name of Richard B(ruce) Cheney
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pronunciation:
[chaynee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1941– )
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| biography:
| US Republican politician, born in Lincoln, Nebraska. After a short time at Yale, he studied political science at the University of Wyoming (BA 1965; MA 1966), went to Washington as a congressional intern, and became special assistant to Donald Rumsfeld in the Nixon administration (1969–70). Appointed Gerald Ford's chief-of-staff (1975–6), he was the youngest man to have held that post. He then worked in the private sector until elected to the House of Representatives in 1978, becoming minority whip in 1988. He was vice-chairman of the committee that investigated the Iran–Contra scandal. Secretary of defence under George Bush (1989–93), he formed the coalition to execute Operation Desert Storm. In the Democrat years he was chief executive officer of Halliburton Co, but returned to politics as George W Bush's running-mate in 2000, and became vice-president in 2001. |
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