In My Time

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Authors: Dick Cheney

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Meeting President Nixon for the first time, with Don Rumsfeld, in the Oval Office in 1970. I had seen President Johnson at his last address to a joint session of Congress in January 1969. I'd also seen President Kennedy when he visited the University of Wyoming in 1963, and President Harry Truman in 1948, when he'd done a whistle-stop tour campaigning through Nebraska,but Nixon was the first president I'd ever actually met. (Official White House Photo)

In the Oval Office on April 28, 1975, with President Ford and
Don Rumsfeld, two men who changed my life. (Official White House Photo/David
Kenner)

With President Bush in the White House residence on Sunday, February 24, 1 991, the morning after we launched ground operations in Operation Desert Storm. I'm briefing the president on our progress in the first hours of the ground war. (Official White House Photo/Dave Valdez)

With President Bush in rhe Oval Office. In 2000, George W. Bush told me he wanted a vice president who would play an important role in helping to govern the nation, and he was true to his word for the entire eight years we served together. (Official White House Photo/David Bohrer)

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ISBN 978-1-4391-7619-1
ISBN 978-1-4391-7623-8 (ebook)

To Lynne, who helped me write my life

CONTENTS

 
  
Prologue:
9/11
ONE
  
Beginnings
TWO
  
Anybody Here Named Cheney?
THREE
  
Backseat
FOUR
  
The Gentleman from Wyoming
FIVE
  
Mr. Secretary
SIX
  
Desert Shield
SEVEN
  
Desert Storm
EIGHT
  
Out of the Arena
NINE
  
Big Time
TEN
  
Angler
ELEVEN
  
A Nation at War
TWELVE
  
Liberating Iraq
THIRTEEN
  
Intelligence and Politics
FOURTEEN
  
Surge
FIFTEEN
  
Setback
SIXTEEN
  
Endings
 
  
Epilogue
 
  
Acknowledgments
 
  
Notes
 
  
Index

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