In my time : a personal and political memoir

542 Pages·2011·7.93 MB·English

by  Richard B Cheney

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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To Lynne, who helped me write my life