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...Dick and Lynne Cheney were just ahead of the baby boomers. They were married (in 1964) and had two daughters (in 1966 and '69) as the grand social transformations of the 1960s were heating up. The responsibilities of a new family might have dissuaded them from joining the experiment of hippie culture, but that was not their wont in any case. "It was a time of great upheaval," remembers Celeste Colgan, a friend since the mid-'60s. "We talked about it a lot - Dick particularly. He was worried about the direction of the country. It was a tremendous wake...
...Rumsfeld again brought Cheney along as his deputy. And when Ford took over for Nixon, appointing Rumsfeld chief of staff, Cheney was at Rumsfeld's side as No. 2; his Secret Service code name was, appropriately, "Backseat." Finally, in November 1975, after Rumsfeld was named Ford's Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney became the youngest White House chief of staff in history...
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...Verbal Economizer There is a joke about the Vice President that his friends like to tell. "Dick Cheney is always at an undisclosed location," they say, "even when he's sitting right in front of you." For the taciturn Cheney, discretion has been the key to power and influence. He has made calculated silence his calling card. Whether in meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill or in sessions of President Bush's war council, Cheney, as a colleague in the White House puts it, "just sits there and listens with that crooked grin on his face. He almost never speaks...
...school. Harry (the Horse) Geldien, Cheney's football coach, remembers the young man as a locker-room leader, though not the rah-rah, attention-grabbing type. "They'd be in there dressing for the game, and there was usually a lot of chattering and noise," Geldien recalls. "But when Dick started to speak, the other kids would stop and listen. They respected...