Dick Cheney entered politics in Beginning as an intern for the Senate, Cheney quickly rose to power by first becoming an aide to the Wisconsin governor, then working for President Richard Nixon 's administration in He served as Gerald Ford 's chief of staff from to , then served six terms in Congress before being appointed secretary of defense by President George H. Bush in About 10 years later, he worked for another Bush administration, this time as vice president to President George W. Bush in for two terms. As vice president, Cheney was known for taking on a prominent role in the Bush administration, being a more active vice president than what had ever been seen in the Oval Office before.

Washington D. The documents show how Cheney built a rap sheet for drunk driving and arranged draft deferments in the s, pitched in on President Gerald R. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful. I had been arrested twice for DUI when I was a year-old.

Cheney, often cited as the most powerful vice president in American history, [2] [3] ended his tenure as an unpopular figure in American politics. He began his political career as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger , eventually working his way into the White House during the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as White House chief of staff from to