Due to the tight security measures the most significant threat to materialize was a snowball thrown at Dick Cheney's limousine.

Just Us Kids continued with the previous album's political themes and included the song Cheney's Toy, McMurtry's most direct criticism of George W. Bush so far.

Cheney's father Moses was the original printer for The Morning Star newspaper, and he was a friend of Frederick Douglass, the noted abolitionist.

For example, in the first half of 2001, the Senators were divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority.

* January 20, 2001: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were sworn-in as President of the United States and Vice President of the United States, respectively, giving the Republicans a narrow majority in the Senate with Cheney's tie-breaking power.

During the third and final Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate, moderator Bob Schieffer asked, “ Do you believe homosexuality is a choice ?” John Kerry replied, " If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as .” This prompted an angry response from Dick Cheney, who stated, “ You saw a man who will say and do anything in order to get elected.

In November 2006, LaRouche himself issued a statement saying the allegations were a hoax stemming from a campaign orchestrated by Dick Cheney, then the Vice-President of the United States, and Cheney's wife.

In the letter, Addington argued that certain characteristics of the fictional profile of Lynne Cheney ( Dick Cheney's wife ) on Whitehouse. org were cause for litigation should Second Lady Cheney decide to file a lawsuit against Chickenhead Productions.

He also built some racing frames for Suzuki Grand Prix motorcycles in 1968 and, it has been suggested that Suzuki engineers incorporated features of Cheney's designs, such as magnesium hubs and lower fork legs into production road going motorcycles.

American actor Steve McQueen, an experienced off road rider who represented the United States in the ISDT bought a number of Cheney's motorcycles at full price because he considered them better than other makes.

Recent examples include Vice President Dick Cheney's whirlwind two-hour visit to collect $ 300, 000 in 2006 and Senator Barack Obama's somewhat longer three-hour trip in November, 2007 to collect $ 200, 000 Both refused to meet with the news media, press the flesh or meet with local politicians, inconceivable in Iowa or New Hampshire.

The bunker is the secure, undisclosed location where former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9 / 11 attacks: according to Clift's report, entitled " Shining Light on Cheney's Hideaway " Biden said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.

His children attended school with Cheney's grandchildren.

Just nine months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and with U. S. troops at war in Afghanistan, President Bush was intent on ensuring that in the event of a crisis there would be no question of Cheney's authority.

Bush invoked executive privilege " in substance " in refusing to disclose the details of Vice President Dick Cheney's meetings with energy executives, which was not appealed by the GAO.

Vice-President Cheney's presence was particularly notorious with coverage in the New York Times of his lively antics which included dancing the polka, serving attendees kielbasa with stuffed cabbage and addressing a cheering crowd by shouting the polish phrase Sto Lat.

According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official, later revealed to be I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson ( the husband of Plame ) published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for " twisting " intelligence to justify war in Iraq.

The 21 June 2004 issue of Newsweek stated that the Bybee Memo, a 2002 legal memorandum drafted by former OLC lawyer John Yoo that described what sort of interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists or terrorist affiliates the George W. Bush administration would consider legal, was " prompted by CIA questions about what to do with a top Qaeda captive, Abu Zubaydah, who had turned uncooperative ... and was drafted after White House meetings convened by George W. Bush's chief counsel, Alberto Gonzales, along with Defense Department general counsel William Haynes and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's counsel, who discussed specific interrogation techniques ", citing " a source familiar with the discussions ".

Nevertheless, Cheney's sexual orientation was publicly known, and some considered her presence during the campaign as bolstering, providing the Republican ticket with a " compassionate conservative " image.

During an interview with Lynne Cheney, Cokie Roberts brought up the topic of Mary Cheney's having declared herself a lesbian.

Both Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards mentioned and praised Cheney's openness with regard to her sexual orientation when questioned regarding gay issues.

" During Mary Cheney's May 19, 2006, appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, Letterman addressed some of the issues raised by the gay community.

Cheney's NEP was supposed to be a directive with clear instructions on how to proceed with the new task force.

Rouse, then vice president of Exxon Mobil and a major donor to the Bush inauguration ; Kenneth L. Lay, then head of Enron Corp .; Jack N. Gerard, then with the National Mining Association ; Red Cavaney, president of the American Petroleum Institute ; and Eli Bebout, an old friend of Cheney's from Wyoming who serves in the state Senate and owns an oil and drilling company.

Kuhl said he couldn't agree more with Cheney's assessment that combating terrorists around the world stands as the top issue of this campaign.

* The computer scientist Henry Baker references the song in his paper CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments, Part II: Cheney on the M. T. A., which describes a way of implementing Cheney's algorithm using C functions that, like Charlie, never return.

Some of Cheney's motorcycle designs are now famous in their own right, such as the competition BSA Gold Stars of Jerry Scott and Keith Hickman and the John Banks replica which used a BSA B50 engine specially tuned by Cheney.

Cheney's company was originally known as Eric Cheney Designs, then changed to Inter-Moto, now known as Cheney Racing.

* 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case.

After his tenure, and during the 2008 Presidential campaign, both Vice Presidential candidates, Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden, stated that the office had expanded too much under Cheney's tenure and both had planned to reduce the role to simply being an adviser to the President.

Lila Cheney's former bodyguard.

Fairfield began as a station on the Milwaukee and is between Great Falls and Choteau and near Freezeout Lake, ( from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company ) where as many as 300, 000 snow geese and 10, 000 tundra swans gather in March.

This includes the communities of Ellery Center, Centraila, Driftwood, and Cheney's Point.

* Bly Bay – A bay on the west side of Chautauqua Lake, south of Cheney's Point.

* Cheney's Point – A lake shore hamlet south of Hadley Bay on a headland called Cheney's Point.

* Long View – A lake shore hamlet south of Cheney's Point.

* Quigley Park – A hamlet near Cheney's Point.

He encouraged military action against Iraq and supported Dick Cheney's agenda for " The New Middle East ", which called for pro-democracy programs in Syria and Iran.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

In an interview in 2007, Whitman stated that Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence on easing air pollution controls, not the personal reasons she cited at the time, led to her resignation.

It was also grounds for termination in the Balkans if any BRS employee spoke of Dick Cheney's being CEO.

Critics contend that it was a no-bid contract, awarded due to Dick Cheney's position as vice president.