Eric Cheney ( 5 January 1924 – 30 December 2001 ) was an independent British motorcycle designer and constructor.

Cheney had no formal training as a motorcycle designer yet was able to create original and high performance motorcycle chassis designs working in a simple workshop that was essentially a domestic garage.

In the late 1960s, the British motorcycle industry was unable to support a national team to compete in the International Six Days Trial so, Cheney hand built a limited number of ISDT Cheney-Triumphs using his own design of twin down-tube frame with a specially tuned Triumph 5TA engine.

Fitted with tapered conical hubs, special motocross forks and large alloy fuel tanks, a Cheney Triumph was first used in the 1968 British Trophy Team.

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

In 2005, Reagan was honored at a gala dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D. C. where guests included Dick Cheney, Harry Reid and Condoleezza Rice.

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

Former Secretary of Defense and future Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney was touted by many as a possible candidate for the presidency, but he declared his intentions not to run in early 1995.

Dick Cheney, for instance, was widely regarded as one of President George W. Bush's closest confidants.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

Vice President Dick Cheney met with Vice President-elect Joe Biden at Number One Observatory Circle on November 13, 2008, representing a transition between Vice Presidencies. For much of its existence, the office of Vice President was seen as little more than a minor position.

Though Walter Mondale's tenure was the beginning of the modern day power of the Vice Presidency, the tenure of Dick Cheney saw a rapid growth in the office of the Vice President.

Following his tenure, he has been very critical of the Obama administration, especially its treatment of terror detainees, which was something that Cheney had great authority and experience over throughout his tenure.

She was a half-second cousin to her predecessor Anne Boleyn, sharing a great-grandmother, Elizabeth Cheney.

Jane Cheney married Spock in 1927 and assisted him in the research and writing of Dr. Spock's Baby & Child Care, which was published in 1946 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce as The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.

Jane Cheney Spock was a civil liberties advocate and mother of 2 sons.

A short length of Battle Bridge Road survives, but Cheney Road was largely removed to accommodate a realignment of Pancras Road that was originally to run to the east of the German Gymnasium, but now runs between St Pancras railway station and the German Gymnasium.

The expression was used at least once, though, by Vice President Dick Cheney, in a June 2003 speech in which he said, " If there is anyone in the world today who doubts the seriousness of the Bush Doctrine, I would urge that person to consider the fate of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

The opposing view, argued by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a number of influential Department of Defense policy makers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, held that direct and unilateral action was both possible and justified and that America should embrace the opportunities for democracy and security offered by its position as sole remaining superpower.

In 1995, Cheney replaced Thomas H. Cruikshank, as chairman and CEO.

President George W. Bush gestures as he addresses his remarks to the media in Camp David, following a meeting with his economic advisors, from left to right, Edward P. Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors ; Rob Portman, director of the Office of Management and Budget ; U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao ; Vice President Dick Cheney ; U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson ; U. S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez ; U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt and Allan Hubbard ( Presidential advisor ) | Allan Hubbard, director of the United States National Economic Council | National Economic Council.

Vice President Dick Cheney was named chairman.

Such behavior, undertaken while Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, may have violated the Trading with the Enemy Act.

The appointed head of the nominating committee was her husband, Dick Cheney, then the CEO of Halliburton, who eventually emerged as Bush's choice.

Wynn also supported the energy bill promoted by Vice President and former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney.

* Dick Cheney also did legal influence peddling with the military contractor Halliburton during the Iraq war as he later became the CEO of the company.

In a 1999 speech, Dick Cheney, the US Vice President and former CEO of Halliburton ( one of the world's largest energy services corporations ), said,

In 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush attempted to counter a perception of his inexperience by choosing Dick Cheney, a former White House Chief of Staff, congressman, CEO of Halliburton, and Secretary of Defense.

Cheney cited the website, claiming that the independent site defended his actions while CEO of Halliburton.

Smith has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference and FreedomFest in Las Vegas along with U. S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, former Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, economist Art Laffer, authors Charles Murray, George Gilder, and Dinesh D ’ Souza, and Wall Street Journal editors Steven Moore, John Fund and James Taranto.

The loophole is commonly known as the " Halliburton loophole " since former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney was reportedly instrumental in its passage.

The EPA is currently prohibited by law from regulating fracking, the result of the " Halliburton Loophole ," a clause added to the 2005 energy bill at the request of then-vice president Dick Cheney, who was CEO of Halliburton before becoming vice president.

Cheney and his wife had moved to Dallas five years earlier when he assumed the role of chief executive at Halliburton.

Following the end of Operation Desert Storm in February 1991, the Pentagon, led by then defense secretary Dick Cheney, paid Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root Services over $ 8. 5 million to study the use of private military forces with American soldiers in combat zones.

Halliburton has become the object of several controversies involving the 2003 Iraq War and the company's ties to former U. S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

Cheney retired from the company during the 2000 U. S. presidential election campaign with a severance package worth $ 36 million .< ref > As of 2004, he had received $ 398, 548 in deferred compensation from Halliburton while Vice President.

In early December 2010, the Nigerian government filed corruption charges against Cheney in connection with his role as the chief executive of Halliburton.

In mid-December 2010, the case was settled when Nigeria agreed to drop the corruption charges against Cheney and Halliburton in exchange for a $ 250 million settlement.

LaRouche identifies the former U. S. Vice President and former PNAC member Dick Cheney as a modern " synarchist ", and claims that " synarchists " have " a scheme for replacing regular military forces of nations, by private armies in the footsteps of a privately financed international Waffen-SS-like scheme, a force deployed by leading financier institutions, such as the multi-billions funding by the U. S. Treasury, of Cheney's Halliburton gang.

* Filing a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton for alleged fraudulent accounting practices.

Representative Thomas M. Davis, R-Virginia, asked the Pentagon to present 11 documents relating to contracts in Iraq, among them papers that would prove whether Halliburton benefited from its association with Cheney.