Dick Cheney, a powerful vice president and a chief architect of the war in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and part of an old Republican Party guard that is quickly fading away.

Dick Cheney, a significant figure within the Republican Party who served as vice president during the presidency of George W.

For his entire first term, Bush had ceded control of foreign policy to Cheney and Rumsfeld. After he won reelection, Bush started taking back some of that power. Realizing that the Iraq war was going badly, he fired Rumsfeld and replaced him with an old favorite of his father’s, former CIA Director Robert Gates.

In a slew of odd moments in this troubled election came the one this week when top advisors to George W. Bush began invoking the name of Richard Nixon. Nixon, they have said time and again, perhaps in the hope that Vice President Al Gore is listening ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to “Timberwolf” - George Herbert Walker Bush. Before becoming the 41st president, Bush enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday. He went through flight training and became the youngest naval aviator up to that point.