In My Time - Dick Cheney [301]
Afghanistan and, 332, 340, 368, 370
on al Qaeda in Iraq, 368, 414–15
Iraqi Freedom and, 370, 386, 398
Iraqi uranium acquisition and, 403–5
Iraqi WMD and, 368, 392, 395–96
9/11 and, 415
Terrorist Surveillance Program and, 348–49
terHorst, Jerald, 69
terrorists, terrorism, 149–50, 438
Afghanistan and, 334, 340, 344, 347, 363, 368, 418, 427, 501–2
Blair on, 372–73
Bush Doctrine and, 9, 415, 419, 485, 488
capture, imprisonment, interrogation, and killing of, 341, 344, 353–55, 357–63, 419, 435–36, 500–501, 512, 520–24
Geneva Conventions and, 354–55, 361
Iran-Contra affair and, 143–44
Iraq and, 225–26, 344, 367–69, 372, 377, 380, 388, 392–93, 396, 414–15, 418, 433–37, 450, 455, 458, 463–64, 501
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and, 367–68, 373, 378–81, 384
North Korea and, 475, 482, 484, 486–88
prevention of, 333–35, 348, 352–53, 357–59, 361–63, 369, 376–77, 405, 413, 419–20, 522–23
training of, 334, 340, 347, 368, 414, 418, 501
war on, 10, 330–32, 334–36, 339, 344–45, 354–55, 361–62, 372–76, 380–81, 388, 417–18, 434, 454, 492, 500–502, 511, 515, 519, 523
WMD and, 225, 319, 330, 333, 344–45, 369, 374, 384–86, 388, 414, 418, 468–70, 473, 487, 491 see also al Qaeda; 9/11
Terrorist Surveillance Program, 348–53, 363, 512
Texas, 61–62, 91, 95–96, 101, 103, 131, 134, 238, 262–64, 281, 292–93, 302, 508–9, 519
Bush’s governorship of, 252, 263–64, 282, 289
Bush’s presidential campaign and, 252, 254, 263–64, 282
Cheney’s hunting in, 243, 249–52
Cheney’s vice presidential candidacy and, 254, 263–64
Halliburton and, 248–49
Thatcher, Margaret, 19, 200
Thomas, Bill, 130–31, 503
Cheney’s Capitol offices and, 306–7
tax cuts and, 311–13
Thomson, Bill and Toni, 116
Thomson, Meldrim, 95
Thorsness, Leo, 359–60
Thurman, Max, 169–70, 176
Together Forward, Operations, 438–39
Tower, John, 152–53, 156, 162
Trading with the Enemy Act, 475, 482, 486
Treasury Department, U.S., 63, 78, 228, 273, 291, 339, 382, 475
financial crisis and, 503–4, 506–7, 510
O’Neill’s appointment to, 298–99
O’Neill’s departure from, 394–95
Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), 507–10
Truman, Harry, 55, 79, 304
Tuchman, Barbara, 148–49
Tula, Cheney’s trip to, 201–2
Turkey, 188, 224, 379, 501
Turner, John and Mary Kay, 284, 525
Tydings, Joe, 37–38
Ukraine, 180, 231–32, 428, 513
unions, 28, 56, 60, 280–81
United Airlines Flight 93, 4–5, 333
United Arab Emirates (UAE), 182–83, 194–95, 376–77
United Nations, 85–86, 273, 358, 380, 475
Afghanistan and, 346, 426
Desert Storm and, 208, 217, 222, 225–26
Iraqi inspections and, 371, 388–90, 392–94, 403, 412
and Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 137, 205, 207–8
Iraqi resolutions of, 137, 205, 208, 217, 225–26, 364–65, 367, 373, 376, 389–91, 393–95, 397–98, 415
Iraqi sanctions and, 225–26, 365, 371
Iraqi WMD programs and, 364–65, 373, 391–92, 396
Syrian nuclear program and, 471–72
U.S.-Iraqi cease-fire and, 217, 222
uranium:
Iranian nuclear program and, 470, 478
Iraqi acquisition of, 402–7
North Korean nuclear program and, 467, 470, 473, 476–77, 482–86, 489, 493
V-22s, 165–66
Van Cleve, George, 127, 145
Vander Jagt, Guy, 134–35
Vesser, Dale, 200, 235
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 389–90
Vice President’s Residence, 314, 323, 326–27, 337, 339, 440, 443, 462, 516
Fords honored at, 327
Hu’s U.S. visit and, 382–83
Vietnam, Vietnam War, 35–37, 81–84, 134, 146–47, 160, 162, 166, 175–77, 206, 219, 301, 416, 447, 497
casualties in, 210
comparisons between Iraq and, 226, 438
end of, 82–83, 91
Ford and, 75, 81–83, 91
media and, 20, 176–77, 213
Nixon and, 35, 53, 59, 82, 84
opposition to, 36–37, 82, 176–77, 185
peace negotiations in, 81–82, 84
prisoners in, 359–60
Tet Offensive in, 47, 176–77
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 210
Vincent, Mark (brother-in-law), 33, 113, 532
Voinovich, George, 311, 313
Vourlekis, Jason, 532
Walker, John Anthony, 142
Walsh, Lawrence, 409–10
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 446, 459
War Powers Act, 146–47
Washington, D.C.:
British attack on, 10
Cheney’s undisclosed locations and, 337
Cheney’s vice presidential inauguration in, 302–3
demonstrations