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Dick Cheney

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Dick Cheney

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Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney - Business career, Dick Cheney - Early life and family, Dick Cheney - Early political career, Dick Cheney - Education, Dick Cheney - Health problems, Dick Cheney - Plame affair, Dick Cheney - Plans for the future, Dick Cheney - Premature obituary publication & Conspiracy, Dick Cheney - Vice-Presidency, Dick Cheney - Congress, Dick Cheney - Early White House appointments, Dick Cheney - Relationship to Halliburton as Vice President, Dick Cheney - Secretary of Defense

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia II - Dick Cheney - Vice-Presidency

In the spring of 2000, while serving as Halliburton's CEO, he headed George W. Bush's Vice-Presidential search committee. After reviewing Cheney's findings, Bush surprised pundits by asking Cheney himself to join the Republican ticket. In the 2000 presidential election, a question was raised by the Democrats as to Cheney's state of residency since he had been living in Texas. A lawsuit was brought in Jones v. Bush attempting to invalidate electoral votes from Texas under the provisions of the Twelfth amendment, but was rejected ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia II - Dick Cheney - Early life and family

Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to Richard Herbert Cheney and Marjorie Dickey. His father worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a soil conservation agent and was a registered Democrat. He has a brother, Bob, and a sister, Susan. Cheney grew up in Casper, Wyoming Cheney excelled athletically in high school. He was elected the Natrona County High School senior class president, represented the school at Boys State, and played halfback on the football team. [1] [2][3] After high school graduation in 1959 and during the next six summers, Cheney worked on power lines and was a member of the I ...

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Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney - Early life and family, Dick Cheney - Education, Dick Cheney - Early political career, Dick Cheney - Early White House appointments, Dick Cheney - Congress, Dick Cheney - Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney - Business career, Dick Cheney - Health problems, Dick Cheney - Vice-Presidency, Dick Cheney - Relationship to Halliburton as Vice President, Dick Cheney - Premature obituary publication & Conspiracy, Dick Cheney - Plame affair, Dick Cheney - Plans for the future

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It was formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve). Case is the largest independent research university in the state of Ohio. The University offers programs of study in Arts and Sciences, Dental Medicine, Engineering, Law, Management, Medic ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2005

The post-invasion period in Iraq followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States, which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein. This article covers the period starting 1 May 2003. Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2005 - Military occupation. A military occupation was established and run by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which later appointed and granted limited powers to an Iraq Interim Governing Council. Troops for the occupation came primarily ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - U.S. presidential election, 2004

The U.S. presidential election of 2004 was won by the incumbent President, Republican George W. Bush, who defeated his main rival, Democratic Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. One of the main issues was the conduct of the War on Terror. Bush defended the actions of his administration, while Kerry contended that the war had been fought incompetently, and that the Iraq War was a distraction from the War on Terror, not a part of it. The popular vote election took place on Election Day, November 2, but it was not until the ne ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia II - Colin Powell - Military career

Colin Powell was born in The Bronx, New York City in 1937. His parents had immigrated from Jamaica. Powell always spoke warmly of his parents as loving and hard working. He wrote in his autobiography "Its the luck of the draw when you are given parents and I couldn't have been luckier". An indifferent student, Powell attended the City College Of New York and obtained a degree in geology. He later spoke of how he "found himself" when he joined ROTC. He later described it as one of the happiest experiences of his life finding something he love ...

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Colin Powell, Colin Powell - Military career, Colin Powell - Dates of rank, Colin Powell - Awards and decorations, Colin Powell - Presidential appointments, Colin Powell - National Security Advisor, Colin Powell - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell - Civilian career, Colin Powell - Secretary of State, Colin Powell - Life after politics, Colin Powell - Political views, Colin Powell - Civilian awards, Colin Powell - Related information

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Arthur Laffer

Arthur Betz Laffer, Sr. (born August 14, 1940) is a supply side economist who became influential during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-1989). Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve, which demonstrates that in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues. Although he does not claim to have invented this concept (Laffer, 2004), it was popularized with policy-makers following an afternoon meeting with Dick Cheney in which he reportedly s ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; to ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; to abolish the death penalty, torture, and other treatment of prisoners it regards as cruel; to end political killings and forced ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Bush Doctrine

The Bush Doctrine refers to the set of revised foreign policies adopted by the President of the United States George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In an address to the United States Congress after the attacks, President Bush declared that the U.S. would "make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them," a statement that was followed by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Subsequently, the Bush Doctrine has come to be identified with a policy that permits pr ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - American conservatism

Conservatism Part of the Politics series Christian Democracy Liberal conservatism Neoconservatism Paleoconservatism Social conservatism American conservatism Canadian Conservatism Christian Democrats Conservative parties Int'l Democrat Union Hierarchy Social order Tradition William F. Buckley, Jr. Edmund Burke Confucius John T. Flynn Barry Goldwater Joseph de Maistre Prince Me ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Axis of evil

The term axis of evil was used by United States President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002 to describe "regimes that sponsor terror". The states Bush gave in his speech were Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003, the term now applies to only North Korea and Iran . Axis of evil - The phrase. The phrase is derived from that of the rogue state, but the term itself is reminiscent of the Axis powers of World War II and of Presid ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - August 2005

2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → August 2005 - Deaths in August. August 31: Michael Sheard August 26: Lord Fitt August 24: Jack Slipper August 24: Maurice Cowling August 24: Dr. Tom Pashby August 23: Brock Peters August 22: Lord Lane August 21: Robert Moog August 19: Mo Mowlam August 18: Gao Xiumin August 16: Frère Roger August ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - U.S. presidential election 2004

The U.S. presidential election of 2004 was won by the incumbent President, Republican George W. Bush, who defeated his main rival, Democratic Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. One of the main issues was the conduct of the War on Terror. Bush defended the actions of his administration, while Kerry contended that the war had been fought incompetently, and that the Iraq War was a distraction from the War on Terror, not a part of it. The popular vote election took place on Election Day, November 2, but it was not until the ne ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - 1941

1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1941 - Events. 1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. J ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Torture

Torture is any act by which severe torment, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, deterrent, revenge or punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i.e. "third-degree methods" of interrogation). Torture is often associated with terrible pain, severe suffering, and long-term trauma in its subjects. Torture is almost universally considered to be an extreme violation of human rights, as stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Righ ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Gulf War

The 1991 Gulf War also known as Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations[1] mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. The lead up to the war began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, following Iraqi contentions that Kuwait was illegally "slant-drilling" oil across Iraq's border. The invasion was met with immediate economic sanc ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005

The post-invasion period in Iraq followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States, which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein. This article covers the period starting 1 May 2003. Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Military occupation. A military occupation was established and run by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which later appointed and granted limited powers to an Iraq Interim Governing Council. Troops for the occupation came primarily ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up in late 2002 "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the" September 11, 2001 attacks including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The commission was also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks. Some have compared its important, and potentially controversial, role to that of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964. Chaired by former ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - Centre College

Centre College is an accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 15,000 located in Boyle County, approximately 35 miles (56.3 km) south of Lexington, KY. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders in 1819 and ranks 41st nationally among top liberal arts schools in the 2006 US News & World Report list, and is the highest-ranking Kentucky institution. The 115-acre campus has 60 buildings, 13 of which are included on the National Register of Historic Places. ...

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Dick Cheney: Encyclopedia - 9/11 conspiracy theories

According to the 9/11 Commission Report, nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial aircraft on the morning of September 11, 2001. Two of these planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one flew into the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and the final plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to over-power the hijackers. Doubting this explanation, a number of alternative hypothese ...

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