Bush picked Cheney himself (who had supervised the search) to share the ticket. In 2000, after a heavily publicized search for the most qualified running mate, George W. His public life seemed to have found its natural termination Vice turns it into a joke by starting to unroll the final credits at this point. Bush, Cheney planned the first Gulf War in 1990, was admired for his prudent conduct during his tenure at the Pentagon, and in 1993 retired from government to join the American Enterprise Institute, and then became chairman and chief executive officer of Halliburton in 1995.
It showed already in the congressional minority report he wrote in 1987 to defend President Reagan’s extralegal actions in the Iran–Contra deal: Cheney looked on the covert channeling of money as a legitimate exercise of prerogative by the executive branch.Īppointed secretary of defense by President George H.W.
Adam McKay’s Vice, a mock-biopic with some interludes of drama, suggests that Cheney’s distrust of democratic exposure was an ineradicable trait. In those early years, it may have seemed that Cheney’s true passion was electoral politics but his six terms in Congress (1978–1989) mark the only period of his life when he was politically accountable. He was the presidential campaign manager for Gerald Ford in 1976 from there, it was a short step to a successful run as Wyoming’s sole representative in Congress. In 1969, in his late twenties, Cheney became an assistant to Donald Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity and followed him to the Ford White House as deputy chief of staff. After a bad spell-a pair of DWI arrests and a resolution to change his life-he married his high-school sweetheart, Lynne Vincent, and enrolled in the University of Wyoming, where he took a bachelor’s degree and a master’s (with the help of five draft deferments). Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s Viceĭick Cheney grew up in Nebraska and Wyoming, attended Yale for two years, flunked out and went to work as a lineman.
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