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With this eagerly anticipated memoir, past Vice Leader Dick Cheney gives an unyielding family portrait of American politics over nearly 40 years and stocks personal reflections on his role among the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country. The public understanding of Dick Cheney has long been something of your contradiction. He has been viewed as one of the very most powerful vice presidents: secretive, even mystical, and at the same time opinionated and unflinchingly outspoken. He has been both praised and attacked by his peers, the press, and the public. Through it all, courting only the ideals that define him, he has continued to be true to himself, his concepts, his family, and his country. Now, within an enlightening and provocative memoir with flashes of surprising humor and exceptional candor, Dick Cheney can take listeners through his activities as family man, policymaker, businessman, and politician during years that designed our collective history. Born into a family of New Offer Democrats in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney was the kid of a dad at warfare and a high-spirited and resilient mother. He came of age in Casper, Wyoming, playing baseball and basketball and, as senior-class chief executive, courting homecoming queen Lynne Vincent, whom he later wedded. This all-American story needed an abrupt convert when he flunked out of Yale University, signed to build ability lines in the West, and began living as hard as he proved helpful. Cheney tells the storyplot of how he acquired himself back on track and began an extraordinary ascent to the heights of American open public life, where he would remain for nearly four generations:
- He was the youngest White House Key of Staff, working for Leader Gerald Ford - the first of four chief professionals he would come to learn well.
- He became Congressman from Wyoming and was soon a member of the congressional leadership, working carefully with Leader Ronald Reagan.
- He became Secretary of Security in the George H. W. Bush administration, overseeing America's military services during Operation Desert Storm and in the historical transition at the end of the Freezing War.
- He was CEO of Halliburton, a lot of money 500 company with assignments and personnel around the world.
- He became the first vice chief executive of america to provide out his term of office in the twenty-first hundred years. Dealing with George W. Bush from the beginning of the global warfare on terror, he was - and remains - an outspoken defender of taking every step necessary to defend the country.
